9-letter words containing o, d, s, u
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drumrolls — Plural form of drumroll.
- duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dubiosity — dubiety.
- dubiously — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
- dummkopfs — Plural form of dummkopf.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
- duologues — Plural form of duologue.
- duopolies — Plural form of duopoly.
- duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
- duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
- dupondius — a coin of ancient Rome, equal to two asses.
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dust bowl — the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
- dust down — wipe clean
- dust shot — the smallest size of shot for use in a shotgun.
- dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- duststorm — Phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
- duteously — In a duteous manner.
- eastbound — traveling, proceeding, or headed east: an eastbound train.
- edematous — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- eductions — Plural form of eduction.
- elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
- end house — the last house in a row, terrace, or street, from the viewpoint of the speaker
- endosteum — (biology) A membranous vascular layer of cells which line the medullary cavity of a bone.
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- eulogised — Simple past tense and past participle of eulogise.
- euro-isdn — European Integrated Services Digital Network. An ETSI standard for Integrated Services Digital Network being phased in in March 1994. Euro-ISDN will allow full transparent interworking between all European countries (members of the CEPT). It is available on a commercial basis in most European countries.
- fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
- flounders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounder.
- foodstuff — a substance used or capable of being used as nutriment.
- foundress — a woman who establishes something, as an institution or religious order; founder.
- foundries — Plural form of foundry.
- foundrous — founderous.
- foxhounds — Plural form of foxhound.
- gadabouts — Plural form of gadabout.
- gladiolus — any plant of the genus Gladiolus, of the iris family, native especially to Africa, having erect, sword-shaped leaves and spikes of flowers in a variety of colors.
- glucoside — any of an extensive group of compounds that yield glucose and some other substance or substances when treated with a dilute acid or decomposed by a ferment or enzyme.