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9-letter words containing u, p, d

  • douppioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
  • douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
  • downpours — Plural form of downpour.
  • downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
  • drainplug — A plug for a drain.
  • draw upon — use as source or resource
  • dredge up — Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
  • drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
  • drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
  • drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
  • drying up — When you do the drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.
  • duck pond — a pond for ducks
  • duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
  • duct tape — a strongly adhesive silver-gray cloth tape, used in plumbing, household repairs, etc.
  • dummkopfs — Plural form of dummkopf.
  • dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
  • dumpiness — The quality of being dumpy.
  • dumpishly — in a downhearted and despondent manner
  • dumplings — Plural form of dumpling.
  • dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
  • dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
  • dunce cap — a tall, cone-shaped hat formerly worn by slow or lazy students as a punishment in school.
  • dung heap — a heap of dung
  • duopolies — Plural form of duopoly.
  • duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.
  • duplexing — duplex apartment.
  • duplexity — duplex apartment.
  • duplicand — the twofold increase of feu-duty for the period of a year, or the feu-duty paid, as occasioned at specific times
  • duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
  • duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
  • dupondius — a coin of ancient Rome, equal to two asses.
  • dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
  • dutch cap — a woman's lace cap with triangular flaps, characteristic of Dutch national dress
  • dutch lap — a method of laying shingles, slates, or the like, in which each shingle or slate overlaps those below and to one side and is itself overlapped by those above and to the other side.
  • duty paid — on which duty has been paid
  • empurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of empurple.
  • epauleted — Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.
  • epicedium — Dirge, lament, elegy.
  • epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
  • epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
  • epilogued — followed by an epilogue
  • euphausid — (zoology) Any member of the Euphausidae.
  • euripides — ?480–406 bc, Greek tragic dramatist. His plays, 18 of which are extant, include Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigeneia in Aulis, and Bacchae
  • expounded — Simple past tense and past participle of expound.
  • expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
  • feed pump — A feed pump is a pump that moves a fluid such as a fuel at a controlled rate.
  • fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
  • fouled up — grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
  • fouled-up — Informal. confused, chaotic, or disorganized.
  • fucked up — to have sexual intercourse with.
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