9-letter words containing o, u, t, r
- cross out — If you cross out words on a page, you draw a line through them, because they are wrong or because you want to change them.
- cross-cut — made or used for cutting crosswise.
- cross-out — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- crosscuts — Plural form of crosscut.
- crotonbug — species of cockroach
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crowd out — If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.
- cube root — The cube root of a number is another number that makes the first number when it is multiplied by itself twice. For example, the cube root of 8 is 2.
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curiosity — Curiosity is a desire to know about something.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- custodier — a custodian
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cuticolor — of the color of flesh.
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- decocture — the essence or liquor resulting from decoction
- destructo — a person who causes havoc or destruction
- desultory — Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
- detouring — Present participle of detour.
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- devoureth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'devour'.
- dexterous — Someone who is dexterous is very skilful and clever with their hands.
- diner-out — a person who dines out.
- 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.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- drawn-out — long-drawn-out.
- dried out — recovered; detoxified
- drive out — To drive out something means to make it disappear or stop operating.
- droitural — pertaining to right of ownership as distinguished from right of possession.
- 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.
- drown out — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drum into — instill by repetition
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.