10-letter words containing u, d, r
- disruptors — Plural form of disruptor.
- disrupture — interruption; disruption.
- dissimuler — (obsolete) A dissembler.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- distraught — distracted; deeply agitated.
- 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.
- disturbant — having a disturbing effect, disquieting
- disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
- disulfiram — a cream-colored, water-insoluble solid, C 10 H 20 N 2 S 4 , used chiefly in the treatment of chronic alcoholism, producing highly unpleasant symptoms when alcohol is taken following its administration.
- disulfuric — pyrosulfuric.
- diurnalist — a person who writes a diurnal; a journalist
- diuturnity — a long period of time; lastingness
- docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.
- 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
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- dolorously — In a dolorous manner.
- 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.
- dough bird — the Eskimo curlew.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- down under — Australia or New Zealand.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downturned — Turned downwards.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- 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.
- draguignan — a department in SE France. 2326 sq. mi. (6025 sq. km). Capital: Draguignan.
- drain plug — A drain plug is a plug which is taken out to allow a fluid to be drained from a tank such as an engine oil pan or sump.
- drainspout — downspout.
- dramaturge — a specialist in dramaturgy, especially one who acts as a consultant to a theater company, advising them on possible repertory.
- dramaturgy — the craft or the techniques of dramatic composition.
- draughtier — Comparative form of draughty.
- draughting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- 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