9-letter words containing o, u, r, s
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- decourous — Misspelling of decorous.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delirious — Someone who is delirious is unable to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way, usually because they are very ill and have a fever.
- desoeuvre — with nothing to do
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- dexterous — Someone who is dexterous is very skilful and clever with their hands.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dioestrus — diestrus.
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- discolour — Alternative spelling of discolor.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- 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.
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- duststorm — Phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- egrecious — Misspelling of egregious.
- egregious — Outstandingly bad; shocking.
- emporiums — Plural form of emporium.
- emulators — Plural form of emulator.
- enclosure — An area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- erogenous — (of a part of the body) Sensitive to sexual stimulation.
- erroneous — Wrong; incorrect.