8-letter words containing u, d, o
- customed — accustomed; inured
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
- dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
- dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
- deal out — If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone.
- debouche — an outlet, as for troops to debouch through
- debounce — To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- decolour — to deprive of colour, as by bleaching
- decorous — Decorous behaviour is very respectable, calm, and polite.
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- decouple — If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended.
- decurion — a local councillor
- deductor — One who deducts tax.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- deloused — Simple past tense and past participle of delouse.
- delouser — a substance or device which removes lice from something
- delouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delouse.
- delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
- delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
- desirous — If you are desirous of doing something or desirous of something, you want to do it very much or want it very much.
- detoured — Simple past tense and past participle of detour.
- detrusor — a muscle in the wall of the bladder
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deutero- — second or secondary
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- devolute — (obsolete) To devolve.
- devoured — Simple past tense and past participle of devour.
- devourer — to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously.
- devoutly — Devoutly is used to emphasize how sincerely or deeply you hope for something or believe in something.
- dextrous — dexterous
- dialogue — Dialogue is communication or discussion between people or groups of people such as governments or political parties.
- didymous — in pairs or in two parts
- diecious — (especially of plants) having the male and female organs in separate and distinct individuals; having separate sexes.
- diffusor — a person or thing that diffuses.
- dilution — the act of diluting or the state of being diluted.
- diluvion — a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.
- dimerous — consisting of or divided into two parts.
- dine out — to eat the principal meal of the day; have dinner.
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dionysus — the god of fertility, wine, and drama; Bacchus.
- dioscuri — the Greek name for Castor and Pollux, when considered together
- dipnoous — having both lungs and gills for breathing
- disbound — (of a book) having the binding torn or loose.
- discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- discoure — Obsolete form of discover.
- dish out — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
- dishouse — to deprive of a home