9-letter words containing u, r, i
- diuturnal — Durable, long-lasting.
- diverbium — the spoken part of an ancient Roman drama.
- divesture — the act of divesting.
- dna virus — any virus containing DNA.
- dolichuri — poetic term
- doronicum — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes.
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- drainplug — A plug for a drain.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- dried out — recovered; detoxified
- drive out — To drive out something means to make it disappear or stop operating.
- droitural — pertaining to right of ownership as distinguished from right of possession.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- druggists — Plural form of druggist.
- druidical — Alt form Druidical.
- drum into — instill by repetition
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- drying up — When you do the drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- duikerbok — duiker.
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- duralumin — an alloy of aluminum that is 4 percent copper and contains small amounts of magnesium, manganese, iron, and silicon: used for applications requiring lightness and strength, as in airplane construction.
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- duricrust — a hard crust that forms on or in soil in semiarid climates owing to cementation of soil particles. Compare caliche, hardpan (defs 1, 2).
- duumviral — relating to duumvirs
- dzungaria — a region in N Sinkiang, China: a Mongol kingdom during the 11th to 14th centuries.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- ectropium — Ectropion.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- egrecious — Misspelling of egregious.
- egregious — Outstandingly bad; shocking.
- elaterium — a greenish sediment prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a purgative
- eleutheri — a fictitious secret society of free thinkers
- elutriate — Separate (lighter and heavier particles in a mixture) by suspension in an upward flow of liquid or gas.
- emporiums — Plural form of emporium.
- encurtain — to cover or surround with curtains or a veil
- enquering — Present participle of enquere.
- enquirers — Plural form of enquirer.
- enquiries — Plural form of enquiry.
- enquiring — Present participle of enquire.
- epicurean — Of or concerning Epicurus or his ideas.
- epicurism — Epicureanism.
- epicurize — to act as an epicure
- epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
- epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
- epineural — (anatomy) Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra.
- epineuria — sheaths of connective tissue around bundles of nerve fibres