9-letter words containing u, d, c
- duchesses — the wife or widow of a duke.
- duck hawk — a peregrine falcon of the American subspecies Falco peregrinus anatum, noted for its especially swift flight.
- duck pond — a pond for ducks
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- duckboard — a board or boards laid as a track or floor over wet or muddy ground.
- ducklings — Plural form of duckling.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- ducktails — Plural form of ducktail.
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- duct keel — box keel.
- duct tape — a strongly adhesive silver-gray cloth tape, used in plumbing, household repairs, etc.
- ductility — capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable.
- dudelsack — doodlesack.
- dulcamara — a type of vine with orange fruit and purple flowers that is a member of the Solanaceae family
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- dulcified — Sweetened; mollified.
- dulcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dulcify.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dulcitude — Sweetness.
- dulcorate — (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
- dulocracy — rule by slaves.
- dumb cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dumb-cane — a West Indian foliage plant, Dieffenbachia seguine, of the arum family, having yellow-blotched leaves that cause temporary speechlessness when chewed.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
- dunce cap — a tall, cone-shaped hat formerly worn by slow or lazy students as a punishment in school.
- duncishly — in a dullard-like manner
- duodecimo — Also called twelvemo. a book size of about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 12 leaves or 24 pages. Symbol: 12 mo, 12°.
- duplicand — the twofold increase of feu-duty for the period of a year, or the feu-duty paid, as occasioned at specific times
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
- 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).
- dust cart — a garbage truck.
- dustcarts — Plural form of dustcart.
- dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
- dutch 200 — a score of 200 in a game, made by bowling strikes and spares alternately.
- dutch bob — a hair style consisting of bangs cut straight across the forehead and the rest of the hair cut to a uniform length just below the ears.
- dutch cap — a woman's lace cap with triangular flaps, characteristic of Dutch national dress
- dutch cut — Dutch bob.
- dutch elm — a widely planted hybrid elm tree, Ulmus hollandica, with spreading branches and a short trunk
- dutch hoe — a type of hoe in which the head consists of a two-edged cross-blade attached to two prongs or of a single pressing of this shape
- dutch lap — a method of laying shingles, slates, or the like, in which each shingle or slate overlaps those below and to one side and is itself overlapped by those above and to the other side.
- duty call — a visit made for reasons of obligation rather than for social reasons
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- ecuadoran — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- educatees — Plural form of educatee.
- educating — Present participle of educate.
- education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- educative — serving to educate: educative knowledge.