9-letter words containing s, t, r, u
- disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
- disrupted — Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- distrusts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distrust.
- disturbed — marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.
- disturber — Someone or something that disturbs; a disrupter.
- disturned — Simple past tense and past participle of disturn.
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- divesture — the act of divesting.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- 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.
- drug test — screening for traces of a substance
- drug tsar — a senior public official charged with tackling the problem of drugs
- druggists — Plural form of druggist.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- drumettes — Plural form of drumette.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
- dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- duricrust — a hard crust that forms on or in soil in semiarid climates owing to cementation of soil particles. Compare caliche, hardpan (defs 1, 2).
- dust cart — a garbage truck.
- dustcarts — Plural form of dustcart.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- duststorm — Phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
- dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- emulators — Plural form of emulator.
- encrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- entrusted — Assign the responsibility for doing something to (someone).
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- estuarial — Relating to an estuary.
- estuarian — relating to an estuary
- estuaries — Plural form of estuary.
- estuarine — Of or pertaining to an estuary.
- eucharist — The Eucharist is the Christian religious ceremony in which Christ's last meal with his disciples is celebrated by eating bread and drinking wine.
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- eutropous — (of an insect or plant) adapted for pollination
- executers — Plural form of executer.
- executors — Plural form of executor.
- exhauster — (obsolete) exhaust, exhaust pipe.
- extrusile — being thrust or forced out
- extrusion — A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.
- extrusive — Relating to or denoting rock that has been extruded at the earth’s surface as lava or other volcanic deposits.