8-letter words containing o, u
- dormeuse — mobcap.
- dormouse — any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- dortmund — a city in W Germany.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- double x — James Emory ("Jimmie"; "Double X"; "The Beast") 1907–67, U.S. baseball player.
- double-o — careful scrutiny or close inspection.
- double-u — the letter w.
- doublers — Plural form of doubler.
- doublets — Plural form of doublet.
- doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
- doubloon — a former gold coin of Spain and Spanish America, originally equal to two escudos but fluctuating in value.
- doublure — an ornamental lining of a book cover.
- doubters — Plural form of doubter.
- doubtful — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doubting — Present participle of doubt.
- douceurs — Plural form of douceur.
- douching — Present participle of douche.
- doughboy — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- doughnut — a small cake of sweetened or, sometimes, unsweetened dough fried in deep fat, typically shaped like a ring or, when prepared with a filling, a ball.
- douglass — Frederick, 1817–95, U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator.
- dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
- doupioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- dourness — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
- douzeper — a member of the douzepers
- douzieme — (in Swiss watchmaking) the 12th part of a ligne, used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- downhaul — any of various lines for pulling down a sail or a yard, as for securing in a lowered position when not in use.
- downpour — a heavy, drenching rain.
- downrush — (intransitive) To rush down; rush downward.
- downturn — an act or instance of turning down or the state of being turned down: the downturn of a lower lip in a permanent pout.
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropouts — Plural form of dropout.
- droughts — Plural form of drought.
- droughty — dry.
- druglord — the head of an organization or network involved in illegal drug trafficking.
- drum out — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
- drummock — drammock.
- drummond — Henry, 1851–97, Scottish clergyman and writer.
- drumroll — a roll on a drum.
- drymouth — a condition of insufficient saliva, known medically as xerostomia
- du quoin — a town in SW Illinois: site of the Hambletonian.
- duathlon — An athletic contest consisting of running and cycling.
- dubonnet — (lowercase) a deep purple-red color.
- ducatoon — a former silver coin of the Netherlands, used through the 17th and 18th centuries: equal to three gulden.
- duck out — leave secretly
- ducommun — Élie [ey-lee] /eɪˈli/ (Show IPA), 1833–1906, Swiss author: Nobel Peace Prize 1902.
- ductwork — a system of ducts used for a particular purpose, as in a ventilation or heating system.