10-letter words containing u, d, e, r
- discourses — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disfeature — to mar the features of; disfigure.
- disfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfigure.
- disgruntle — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disnatured — deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- disreputed — Simple past tense and past participle of disrepute.
- disrupters — Plural form of disrupter.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- disrupture — interruption; disruption.
- dissimuler — (obsolete) A dissembler.
- distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- distrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of distrust.
- documenter — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- down under — Australia or New Zealand.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downturned — Turned downwards.
- draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
- drag queen — Slang. a male transvestite, especially a performer who dresses as a woman to entertain the public.
- dramaturge — a specialist in dramaturgy, especially one who acts as a consultant to a theater company, advising them on possible repertory.
- draughtier — Comparative form of draughty.
- dreadfully — in a dreadful way: The pain has increased dreadfully.
- dress suit — a man's suit for formal evening dress, with tail coat and open-front waistcoat.
- dressed up — in evening wear
- dressguard — an attachment for a wheel or cycle that prevents damage or the dirtying of clothes
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drudgeries — Plural form of drudgery.
- drudgerous — Of or pertaining to drudgery; tedious, menial and exhausting.
- drudgework — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drug abuse — addiction to drugs.
- drug store — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drug-taker — someone who takes illegal drugs
- drugpusher — a person who sells illicit drugs.
- drugs test — a check for the presence of banned substances in someone's blood or urine
- drugstores — Plural form of drugstore.
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.