10-letter words containing r, e, t, u, d
- dress suit — a man's suit for formal evening dress, with tail coat and open-front waistcoat.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- 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.
- drug-taker — someone who takes illegal drugs
- drugs test — a check for the presence of banned substances in someone's blood or urine
- drugstores — Plural form of drugstore.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- drunk text — a text message sent by someone who is intoxicated.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- dura mater — the tough, fibrous membrane forming the outermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Also called dura. Compare arachnoid (def 6), pia mater.
- durometers — Plural form of durometer.
- durrenmatt — Friedrich [freed-rik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfrid rɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- edulcorate — to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.
- elucidator — One who elucidates.
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- end result — product created by a process
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- endurement — (obsolete) endurance.
- enraptured — Simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.
- enumerated — Simple past tense and past participle of enumerate.
- eruditions — Plural form of erudition.
- étourderie — thoughtlessness, blundering
- eudiometer — A graduated glass tube in which mixtures of gases can be made to react by an electric spark, used to measure changes in volume of gases during chemical reactions.
- eudiometry — (chemistry, dated) The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.
- eurocredit — a loan in which the currency of the loan is different from the national currency of the lending bank
- eurypterid — An extinct marine arthropod of a group occurring in the Paleozoic era. They are related to horseshoe crabs and resemble large scorpions with a terminal pair of paddle-shaped swimming appendages.
- expurgated — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- extrudable — able to be extruded
- exuberated — Simple past tense and past participle of exuberate.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- fluoridate — to introduce a fluoride into: to fluoridate drinking water.
- flustrated — flustered; agitated.
- foederatus — A confederate. One of the tribes bound by treaty, who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose.
- formulated — Simple past tense and past participle of formulate.
- fourfooted — Having four feet.
- fraudsters — Plural form of fraudster.
- fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- frequented — happening or occurring at short intervals: to make frequent trips to Tokyo.
- fructified — Simple past tense and past participle of fructify.
- fructoside — a glycoside that yields fructose upon hydrolysis.
- frustrated — Obsolete. frustrated.