9-letter words containing u, s, r, d
- disburser — One who disburses money.
- disburses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disburse.
- dischurch — to cause (a church) to no longer be a church
- discolour — Alternative spelling of discolor.
- discoured — Simple past tense and past participle of discoure.
- discoures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discoure.
- discourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discumber — (archaic, transitive) To free from that which cumbers or impedes; to disencumber.
- discursus — (logic) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.
- discusser — A person who discusses.
- disfavour — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disfigure — to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- disguiser — One who, or that which, disguises.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disimmure — to release from confinement
- dislustre — to lose or remove lustre
- disnature — to deprive (something) of its proper nature or appearance; make unnatural.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- dispursed — Simple past tense and past participle of dispurse.
- dispurvey — to strip of equipment or provisions
- disputers — Plural form of disputer.
- disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
- disrupted — Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- dissuader — One who dissuades.
- dissunder — to separate; to sever; to sunder
- distrusts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distrust.
- disturbed — marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.
- disturber — Someone or something that disturbs; a disrupter.
- disturned — Simple past tense and past participle of disturn.
- disusered — (jargon) (Usenet) Said of a person whose account on a computer has been removed to prevent access. Setting the DISUSER account status flag on VMS disables the account. "He got disusered when they found out he'd been cracking through the school's Internet access."
- diuretics — Plural form of diuretic.
- divesture — the act of divesting.
- dna virus — any virus containing DNA.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- 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.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- drug test — screening for traces of a substance
- drug tsar — a senior public official charged with tackling the problem of drugs
- druggists — Plural form of druggist.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- drumbeats — Plural form of drumbeat.
- drumettes — Plural form of drumette.