10-letter words containing o, d, u, r
- disruptors — Plural form of disruptor.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.
- documenter — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- dolorously — In a dolorous manner.
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- down under — Australia or New Zealand.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downturned — Turned downwards.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- drainspout — downspout.
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drudgerous — Of or pertaining to drudgery; tedious, menial and exhausting.
- drudgework — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- drug store — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drugstores — Plural form of drugstore.
- druidology — the study of the religion, customs, and practices of the Druids.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- drum major — the marching leader of a drum corps or a band.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- dumfounder — To dumbfound; to confound.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- durometers — Plural form of durometer.
- durovernum — the Latin name for a city in SE England, in E Kent: starting point for St Augustine's mission to England (597 ad); cathedral where St Thomas à Becket was martyred (1170); seat of the archbishop and primate of England; seat of the University of Kent (1965). Pop: 43 552 (2001)
- dusseldorf — a state in W Germany; formerly a part of Rhine province. 13,154 sq. mi. (34,070 sq. km). Capital: Düsseldorf.
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dust storm — a storm of strong winds and dust-filled air over an extensive area during a period of drought over normally arable land (distinguished from sandstorm).
- dutch door — a door consisting of two units horizontally divided so that each half can be opened or closed separately.
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.