9-letter words containing s, u
- doujinshi — (anime, manga, video games) A fan-produced work, especially a manga, anime, or video game.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- dovehouse — A dovecote.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- 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.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- 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.
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- drumrolls — Plural form of drumroll.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- drunkards — Plural form of drunkard.
- drunkness — Drunkenness.
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- dry nurse — a nurse who cares for a child without suckling it
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
- dualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- dualities — Plural form of duality.
- duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dubieties — Plural form of dubiety.
- dubiosity — dubiety.
- dubiously — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- duchesses — the wife or widow of a duke.
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- ducklings — Plural form of duckling.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- ducktails — Plural form of ducktail.
- dudelsack — doodlesack.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dullishly — in a slightly dull manner
- dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
- dumbass's — a thoroughly stupid person; blockhead.
- dumbbells — Plural form of dumbbell.
- dumminess — the condition of being one who contributes nothing or has no comment to make on proceedings
- dummkopfs — Plural form of dummkopf.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.