10-letter words containing n, d, o, u, r
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- denouncers — Plural form of denouncer.
- deodourant — Rare spelling of deodorant.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- devourment — the act of devouring
- dicoumarin — any compound formed with two bonded coumarin molecules
- dig around — If you dig around in a place or container, you search for something in every part of it.
- dinosauric — Of or pertaining to dinosaurs.
- discounter — a person who discounts.
- discursion — an instance of discursive writing, speech, etc.; a wandering or logically unconnected statement.
- disjunctor — a small body found in the spores of some fungi
- disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.
- documenter — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- down under — Australia or New Zealand.
- downbursts — Plural form of downburst.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downturned — Turned downwards.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- drainspout — downspout.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dumfounder — To dumbfound; to confound.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- durovernum — the Latin name for a city in SE England, in E Kent: starting point for St Augustine's mission to England (597 ad); cathedral where St Thomas à Becket was martyred (1170); seat of the archbishop and primate of England; seat of the University of Kent (1965). Pop: 43 552 (2001)
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- ecuadorean — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- ecuadorian — person from Ecuador
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- encouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of encourage.
- end around — a play in which an offensive end or wide receiver, after running across the field behind the line of scrimmage and taking a handoff from the quarterback, attempts to advance downfield
- endeavours — Plural form of endeavour.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- enshrouded — Simple past tense and past participle of enshroud.
- eruditions — Plural form of erudition.
- euroclydon — a stormy wind from the north or northeast that occurs in the Levant, which caused the ship in which St Paul was travelling to be wrecked (Acts 27:14)
- fairground — Often, fairgrounds. a place where fairs, horse races, etc., are held; in the U.S. usually an area set aside by a city, county, or state for an annual fair and often containing exhibition buildings.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flounderer — One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction.
- foreground — the ground or parts situated, or represented as situated, in the front; the portion of a scene nearest to the viewer (opposed to background).
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- foundering — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- founderous — likely to cause foundering; miry; swampy.
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost