9-letter words containing u, d, a, i
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- cinquedea — an Italian short sword of the late 15th and early 16th centuries having a broad, tapering blade, often richly ornamented.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- colubriad — a poem about a snake
- comatulid — any of a group of crinoid echinoderms, including the feather stars, in which the adults are free-swimming
- crusading — campaigning
- cuadrilla — a small group, esp a matador's assistants
- cuirassed — Wearing a cuirass.
- curarized — Simple past tense and past participle of curarize.
- curtailed — to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- dacquoise — a cake with nut meringue layers and buttercream
- dadgummit — (US, euphemistic) goddammit.
- 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.
- damourite — (mineral) A kind of muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
- danburite — a rare mineral, calcium borosilicate, CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 , occurring in pegmatite in yellow or colorless crystals resembling topaz.
- darius ii — (Ochus) died 404 b.c, king of Persia 424–404 (son of Artaxerxes I).
- daubingly — in a coating or smearing manner
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- deauville — a town and resort in NW France: casino. Pop: 3968 (2008)
- deciduate — having or characterized by a decidua.
- decubital — any position assumed by a patient when lying in bed.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delictual — (legal) Derived from a delict (analogous to a tort).
- dentalium — any scaphopod mollusc of the genus Dentalium
- depardieu — Gérard. born 1948, French film actor, granted Russian citizenship in 2013. His films include Jean de Florette (1986), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Green Card (1991), The Man in the Iron Mask (1997), and Tais-toi (2003)
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- devaluing — to deprive of value; reduce the value of.
- diacodium — (in pre-modern medicine) a herbal remedy made chiefly from poppies, acting as an opiate and thus used to aid sleep
- dialogued — Simple past tense and past participle of dialogue.
- dialogues — Plural form of dialogue.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diapauses — Plural form of diapause.
- diatretum — a type of decorative Roman bowl or cup made of glass
- diazeutic — Alternative form of diazeuctic.
- diazeuxis — the separation of two tetrachords by the interval of a tone
- diazonium — of, consisting of, or containing the group, Ar-N:N-, where Ar is an aryl group
- dibucaine — a compound, C 20 H 29 N 3 O 2 , used as a local and spinal anesthetic.
- dicacious — teasing and cheeky in the way one speaks
- dichasium — a cymose inflorescence in which each branch bearing a flower gives rise to two other flowering branches, as in the stitchwort
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dictature — dictatorship