9-letter words containing s, u
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cut stone — a stone or stonework dressed to a relatively fine finish with tools other than hammers.
- cut-grass — any grass (esp. Leersia oryzoides) having tiny hooks along the edges of the blades that cause scratches on the human skin
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- cutlasses — Plural form of cutlass.
- cutleries — cutting instruments collectively, especially knives for cutting food.
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cybersoul — The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.
- cynosures — Plural form of cynosure.
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- d-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- dachshund — A dachshund is a small dog that has very short legs, a long body, and long ears.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- daiquiris — Plural form of daiquiri.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- daliesque — of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali: giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.
- damasquin — decorate metal
- damasus i — Saint, pope a.d. 366–384.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dantesque — in the style of Dante; characterized by impressive elevation of style with deep solemnity or somberness of feeling.
- darius ii — (Ochus) died 404 b.c, king of Persia 424–404 (son of Artaxerxes I).
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- dauntless — A dauntless person is brave and confident and not easily frightened.
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- day nurse — a nurse who is on duty during the daytime
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- dean rusk — (David) Dean, 1909–94, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1961–69.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- debuggers — Plural form of debugger.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- debutants — Plural form of debutant.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- declivous — having a declining slope or gradient
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decourous — Misspelling of decorous.
- decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
- decubitus — the posture adopted when lying down
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- decus cpp — An almost-ANSI C preprocessor by Martin Minow. It is shipped with X11R5 (contrib/util/cpp) because some systems don't have a working cpp. It runs on VMS (Vax C, Decus C), RSX-11M, RSTS/E, P/OS, RT11, A/UX and Apollo Domain/IX 9.6 and is highly portable.
- decussate — to cross or cause to cross in the form of the letter X; intersect
- defocused — Simple past tense and past participle of defocus.
- degaussed — Simple past tense and past participle of degauss.
- degausser — a device that degausses
- degausses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degauss.
- degustate — to taste or savor carefully or appreciatively.
- degusting — Present participle of degust.