9-letter words containing r, u, d, a
- co durham — County Durham
- coadjutor — a bishop appointed as assistant to a diocesan bishop
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- communard — a member of a commune
- courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- crusaders — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusading — campaigning
- crusadoes — Plural form of crusado.
- cuadrilla — a small group, esp a matador's assistants
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- cultrated — Cultrate.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curandera — (in Hispanic America) a female healer or shaman
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curd tart — a tart with a sweet filling in which curd is the main ingredient
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- daiquiris — Plural form of daiquiri.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- dandruffy — Dandrufflike.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- darius ii — (Ochus) died 404 b.c, king of Persia 424–404 (son of Artaxerxes I).
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- de la rue — Warren, 1815–89, English astronomer and inventor.
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- decurtate — Shortened, curtailed.
- defaulter — A defaulter is someone who does not do something that they are legally supposed to do, such as make a payment at a particular time, or appear in a court of law.
- defeature — to blemish or disfigure (a person or thing)
- defrauded — to deprive of a right, money, or property by fraud: Dishonest employees defrauded the firm of millions of dollars.
- defrauder — One who defrauds.
- degausser — a device that degausses
- dehra dun — a city in N India, the capital of Uttarakhand (formerly Uttaranchal): Indian military academy (1932). Pop: 447 808 (2001)
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- demeanour — Your demeanour is the way you behave, which gives people an impression of your character and feelings.
- demeanure — Obsolete form of demeanor.
- demurrage — the delaying of a ship, railway wagon, etc, caused by the charterer's failure to load, unload, etc, before the time of scheduled departure
- denatured — Having been deprived of its nature, having had its nature changed.
- denatures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denature.
- dépanneur — (in Quebec) a convenience store
- depardieu — Gérard. born 1948, French film actor, granted Russian citizenship in 2013. His films include Jean de Florette (1986), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Green Card (1991), The Man in the Iron Mask (1997), and Tais-toi (2003)
- departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)