9-letter words containing u, s, r, d
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- drumrolls — Plural form of drumroll.
- drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
- drunkards — Plural form of drunkard.
- drunkness — Drunkenness.
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- dry nurse — a nurse who cares for a child without suckling it
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
- dubersome — (archaic) Doubtful.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dulcimers — Plural form of dulcimer.
- dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
- dungarees — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- 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).
- dust cart — a garbage truck.
- dustcarts — Plural form of dustcart.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- duststorm — Phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
- dyersburg — a city in W Tennessee.
- dysmature — Exhibiting dysmaturity.
- educators — Plural form of educator.
- encrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- entrusted — Assign the responsibility for doing something to (someone).
- epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
- epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
- 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
- euro-isdn — European Integrated Services Digital Network. An ETSI standard for Integrated Services Digital Network being phased in in March 1994. Euro-ISDN will allow full transparent interworking between all European countries (members of the CEPT). It is available on a commercial basis in most European countries.
- excluders — Plural form of excluder.
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- flounders — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounder.
- flustered — to put into a state of agitated confusion: His constant criticism flustered me.
- foundress — a woman who establishes something, as an institution or religious order; founder.
- foundries — Plural form of foundry.
- foundrous — founderous.
- fraudsman — a fraudster; a cheat
- fraudster — A person who practices fraud; a swindler.
- frusemide — Former BAN name of the drug furosemide.
- fundraise — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- gold rush — a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
- gourmands — Plural form of gourmand.
- graduands — Plural form of graduand.
- graduates — Plural form of graduate.
- grandeurs — the quality or state of being impressive or awesome: the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.
- grounders — Plural form of grounder.