8-letter words containing u, n, d
- conducer — to lead or contribute to a result (usually followed by to or toward): qualities that conduce to success.
- conduces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conduce.
- conducts — Plural form of conduct.
- conduits — Plural form of conduit.
- confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
- confused — If you are confused, you do not know exactly what is happening or what to do.
- confuted — Simple past tense and past participle of confute.
- conidium — an asexual spore formed at the tip of a specialized hypha (conidiophore) in fungi such as Penicillium
- conjured — Simple past tense and past participle of conjure.
- consumed — If you are consumed with a feeling or idea, it affects you very strongly indeed.
- contused — Simple past tense and past participle of contuse.
- cornuted — having horns
- corundum — a white, grey, blue, green, red, yellow, or brown mineral, found in metamorphosed shales and limestones, in veins, and in some igneous rocks. It is used as an abrasive and as gemstone; the red variety is ruby, the blue is sapphire. Composition: aluminium oxide. Formula: Al2O3. Crystal structure: hexagonal (rhombohedral)
- couldn't — Couldn't is the usual spoken form of 'could not'.
- 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
- cow dung — cow manure
- crunched — Simple past tense and past participle of crunch.
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- cuddling — Present participle of cuddle.
- culloden — a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- curdling — Present participle of curdle.
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- 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
- 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.
- debunked — Simple past tense and past participle of debunk.
- debunker — to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated: to debunk advertising slogans.
- 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
- debuting — a first public appearance on a stage, on television, etc.
- decurion — a local councillor
- dedendum — (on a gear or rack) the radial distance between the pitch circle or line and the root circle or line. Compare addendum (def 3a).
- deducing — Present participle of deduce.
- defluent — running downwards
- defusing — Present participle of defuse.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- dejeuner — the morning meal
- 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