9 Letter Words for Discourse
discoures, discourse
8 Letter Words for Discourse
desirous, dicerous, discoers, discoure, discures, scouries, siderous
7 Letter Words for Discourse
cesious, ciruses, cordies, cosiers, coursed, courses, croises, crossed, cruised, cruises, crusies, cuisser, diceros, discoer, discour, discous, discure, diseurs, dissour, dossier, dousers, escudos, rescous, scorsed, scoured, scourie, scouser, secours, serious, sourced, sources, sucrose, sudoric, sudsier
6 Letter Words for Discourse
cedrus, ceroid, cerous, cessio, cessor, ciders, coders, cordis, coreid, cories, corses, corsie, cossid, cossie, coudes, coured, coures, courie, course, credos, crises, croise, crosse, crouse, crudes, cruise, cruses, crusie, cuisse, curies, curios, cursed, curses, cussed, cusser, decors, decuss, dicers, discos, discus, diseur, disour, dissue, disuse, dories, dorses, dosers, dosser, doucer, douser, douses, drices, druses, duress, durocs, escrod, escudo, esodic, euodic, iscose, issued, issuer, orudis, osiers, resids, resods, roscid, rosied, rosies, roused, rouses, rudies, scious, scored, scores, scorse, scours, scouse, scride, scried, scries, scused, seisor, serous, siders, sieurs, sirocs, socies, socius, sordes, souced, souces, source, soured, sourse, soused, souser, sucres, sudors, sudser, uredos, ureido, uresis, uroses, urosis, ursids, ursoid
5 Letter Words for Discourse
cedis, ceros, cider, cides, cires, coder, codes, coeds, coirs, cords, cored, cores, corse, cosed, coses, cosie, cosse, coude, courd, coure, cours, credo, creds, cress, cried, cries, crise, criss, crius, crois, crose, cross, crude, cruds, crues, cruse, curds, cured, cures, curie, curio, curse, cursi, cusie, cusso, decor, decos, decus, deric, dicer, dices, diose, disco, discs, doers, doric, doris, dorse, dorsi, doser, doses, dosis, douce, doucs, douse, dress, drice, dries, dross, druse, duces, dures, durio, duroc, duros, dusio, ecoid, ecrus, eidos, erics, euois, euros, icers, idcue, idose, ireos, irous, issue, orcus, oside, osier, ourie, redos, resid, resod, riced, rices, rides, rises, risus, rodes, rosed, roses, roues, rouse, rudes, rudie, ruses, russe, score, scour, scrod, scudi, scudo, scuds, scurs, scuse, secos, secus, seirs, seric, serio, sicer, sices, sider, sides, sieur, sired, sires, siroc, siros, sodic, sords, sored, sores, sorus, sosie, souce, sours, souse, sucre, sudes, sudor, suers, suids, surds, sured, uredo, ureic, ureid, ursid, users
4 Letter Words for Discourse
cedi, cero, cess, cide, cids, cire, code, cods, coed, coes, coir, cord, core, cors, cose, coss, coud, coue, cour, cred, cres, cris, crud, crue, crus, cuds, cued, cues, cuir, curd, cure, curs, cuss, dcor, deco, deis, dero, desc, desi, dess, deus, dice, dier, dies, dioc, dire, disc, docs, doer, does, dore, dors, dose, doss, douc, dour, drie, drou, dsos, dsri, duce, duci, ducs, duer, dues, duos, duro, ecod, ecru, ecus, educ, eric, eris, eros, eruc, euoi, euro, iced, icer, ices, icod, ideo, ides, iocs, iode, ired, ires, ised, isos, iuds, iure, oder, odes, odic, oeci, orcs, ords, ordu, ored, ores, oses, osse, ouds, ours, recd, recs, redo, reds, rice, ride, rids, ries, risc, rise, rocs, rode, rods, roed, roes, roid, rose, ross, roud, roue, rous, rucs, rude, ruds, rued, rues, ruse, russ, scsi, scud, scur, seco, secs, seir, seis, seor, sero, sers, sice, sics, side, sids, sier, sire, sirs, sise, soce, socs, sods, soir, sord, sore, sori, soud, sour, sous, sris, ssed, suci, sude, suds, sued, suer, sues, suid, surd, sure, susi, udos, urde, urds, ures, uric, used, user, uses, ussr
3 Letter Words for Discourse
cdr, ceo, cer, cid, cie, cir, cis, cod, cor, cos, cro, crs, cru, csi, cud, cue, cur, dec, dei, der, des, die, dir, dis, doc, doe, dor, dos, dso, dsr, duc, due, dui, duo, dur, eco, ecu, edo, eds, eir, eos, erd, ers, esc, esd, esr, ess, esu, ice, ide, ido, ids, ios, iou, ire, irs, ise, iso, iud, ode, ods, oer, oes, oie, ois, orc, ord, ore, ors, ose, osi, oud, oui, our, ous, rcd, rec, red, rei, res, rid, rie, rio, roc, rod, roe, roi, ros, ruc, rud, rue, scd, sci, scr, sds, sec, sed, sei, ser, sic, sie, sir, sis, soc, sod, sou, sri, sse, ssu, sud, sue, sui, sur, sus, udo, uds, urd, ure, urs, use
Definitions for Discourse
[1] communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
[2] a formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing, as a dissertation, treatise, sermon, etc.
[3] Linguistics . any unit of connected speech or writing longer than a sentence.
[4] to communicate thoughts orally; talk; converse.
[5] to treat of a subject formally in speech or writing.
[6] to utter or give forth (musical sounds).
[7] verbal communication; talk; conversation
[8] a formal treatment of a subject in speech or writing, such as a sermon or dissertation
[9] a unit of text used by linguists for the analysis of linguistic phenomena that range over more than one sentence
[10] archaic the ability to reason or the reasoning process
[11] (intr; often foll by on or upon) to speak or write (about) formally and extensively
[12] (intr) to hold a discussion
[13] (tr) archaic to give forth (music)
Words related to Discourse
essay, rhetoric, treatise, communication, discussion, conversation, speech, lecture, monologue, huddle, thesis, descant, converse, homily, verbalization, monograph, sermon, paper, speaking, chat
Words nearby Discourse
discounted cash flow, discountenance, discounter, discourage, discouragement, discourse, discourse analysis, discourteous, discourtesy, discover, discovered check
Origin of Discourse
1325–75; Middle English discours < Medieval Latin discursus (spelling by influence of Middle English cours course), Late Latin: conversation, Latin: a running to and fro, equivalent to discur(rere ) to run about (dis- dis-1 + currere to run) + -sus for -tus suffix of v. action
Other words from Discourse
dis·cours·er , noun
pre·dis·course , noun
Word origin for Discourse
C14: from Medieval Latin discursus argument, from Latin: a running to and fro, from discurrere to run different ways, from dis- 1 + currere to run
Synonyms for Discourse
communication, conversation, discussion, essay, lecture, monologue, rhetoric, speech, treatise, address, article, chat, converse, descant, disquisition, gabfest, homily, huddle, memoir, monograph, oration, paper, sermon, speaking, talk, thesis, utterance, verbalization, tractate