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8-letter words containing u, n, a, d

  • boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
  • breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
  • buckland — William. 1784–1856, English geologist; he became a proponent of the idea of catastrophic ice ages
  • bundwall — a concrete or earth wall surrounding a storage tank containing crude oil or its refined product, designed to hold the contents of the tank in the event of a rupture or leak
  • bushland — uncultivated land (esp in Australia) that is covered with trees, shrubs, or other natural vegetation
  • butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
  • caducean — relating to a caduceus
  • caudling — Present participle of caudle.
  • cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
  • chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
  • claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
  • clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
  • clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
  • commaund — Obsolete form of command.
  • coumadin — Synonym of warfarin.
  • coupland — Douglas. born 1961, Canadian novelist and journalist; novels include Generation X (1991), Girlfriend in a Coma (1998), and City of Glass (2000)
  • courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
  • cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
  • crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
  • damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
  • dan buoy — a small buoy used as a marker at sea
  • dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
  • danseuse — a female ballet dancer
  • danubian — of or relating to the river Danube
  • dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
  • daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
  • daubigny — Charles François (ʃarl frɑ̃swa). 1817–78, French landscape painter associated with the Barbizon School
  • daunting — Something that is daunting makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
  • dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
  • dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
  • dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
  • debutant — a person who is making a first appearance in a particular capacity, such as a sportsperson playing in a first game for a team
  • delaunay — Robert (rɔbɛr). 1885–1941, French painter, whose abstract use of colour characterized Orphism, an attempt to introduce more colour into austere forms of Cubism
  • denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
  • denature — to change the nature of
  • dentural — of or relating to dentures
  • denudate — denuded; bare
  • depurant — purifying
  • deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
  • dianthus — any Eurasian caryophyllaceous plant of the widely cultivated genus Dianthus, such as the carnation, pink, and sweet william
  • dilutant — A diluting agent; a diluent, or thinner.
  • diluvian — pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.
  • 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.
  • dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
  • disannul — to annul utterly; make void: to disannul a contract.
  • diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
  • don juan — a legendary Spanish nobleman famous for his many seductions and dissolute life.
  • douanier — a customs officer or official.
  • dounreay — the site in N Scotland of a nuclear power station, which contained the world's first fast-breeder reactor (1962–77). A prototype fast-breeder operated from 1974 until 1994: a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant has also operated at the site
  • douzaine — a bet in roulette on 12 numbers simultaneously so as to share in any that win.
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