10-letter words containing t, r, u, d
- drunk tank — a large jail cell where persons arrested for drunkenness are kept, usually overnight.
- drunk text — a text message sent by someone who is intoxicated.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- dura mater — the tough, fibrous membrane forming the outermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Also called dura. Compare arachnoid (def 6), pia mater.
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durometers — Plural form of durometer.
- durrenmatt — Friedrich [freed-rik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfrid rɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dust storm — a storm of strong winds and dust-filled air over an extensive area during a period of drought over normally arable land (distinguished from sandstorm).
- dust whirl — dust devil.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutch door — a door consisting of two units horizontally divided so that each half can be opened or closed separately.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutch rush — scouring rush.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- edulcorate — to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.
- elucidator — One who elucidates.
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- end result — product created by a process
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- endurement — (obsolete) endurance.
- enraptured — Simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.
- enumerated — Simple past tense and past participle of enumerate.
- eruditions — Plural form of erudition.
- étourderie — thoughtlessness, blundering
- eudiometer — A graduated glass tube in which mixtures of gases can be made to react by an electric spark, used to measure changes in volume of gases during chemical reactions.
- eudiometry — (chemistry, dated) The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.
- eurocredit — a loan in which the currency of the loan is different from the national currency of the lending bank
- eurypterid — An extinct marine arthropod of a group occurring in the Paleozoic era. They are related to horseshoe crabs and resemble large scorpions with a terminal pair of paddle-shaped swimming appendages.
- expurgated — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- extrudable — able to be extruded
- exuberated — Simple past tense and past participle of exuberate.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- fluoridate — to introduce a fluoride into: to fluoridate drinking water.
- flustrated — flustered; agitated.
- foederatus — A confederate. One of the tribes bound by treaty, who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose.
- food court — a space, as in a shopping mall, with a concentration of fast-food stalls and usually a common eating area.
- food truck — a truck or van from which food is sold, as to people on the street.
- footguards — foot soldiers with ceremonial duties