9-letter words containing s, u, r, d, i
- disfigure — to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- disguiser — One who, or that which, disguises.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disimmure — to release from confinement
- dislustre — to lose or remove lustre
- disnature — to deprive (something) of its proper nature or appearance; make unnatural.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- dispursed — Simple past tense and past participle of dispurse.
- dispurvey — to strip of equipment or provisions
- disputers — Plural form of disputer.
- 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.
- dissuader — One who dissuades.
- dissunder — to separate; to sever; to sunder
- 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.
- disusered — (jargon) (Usenet) Said of a person whose account on a computer has been removed to prevent access. Setting the DISUSER account status flag on VMS disables the account. "He got disusered when they found out he'd been cracking through the school's Internet access."
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- divesture — the act of divesting.
- dna virus — any virus containing DNA.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- druggists — Plural form of druggist.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- 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).
- epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
- epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
- euripides — ?480–406 bc, Greek tragic dramatist. His plays, 18 of which are extant, include Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigeneia in Aulis, and Bacchae
- euro-isdn — European Integrated Services Digital Network. An ETSI standard for Integrated Services Digital Network being phased in in March 1994. Euro-ISDN will allow full transparent interworking between all European countries (members of the CEPT). It is available on a commercial basis in most European countries.
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- foundries — Plural form of foundry.
- frusemide — Former BAN name of the drug furosemide.
- fundraise — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- grundyism — a prudish adherence to conventionality, especially in personal behavior.
- guardians — Plural form of guardian.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës