10-letter words containing r, a, d, i, o
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- disembargo — to remove an embargo from.
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- disorganic — Not organic; having no organization.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- distractor — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- distrainor — (legal) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- ditto mark — Often, ditto marks. two small marks (″) indicating the repetition of something, usually placed beneath the thing repeated.
- dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- divisorial — Lb maths Related to a divisor.
- dogmatizer — One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
- dollarbird — a common roller, Eurystomus orientalis, of Asia and Australia, having on its wings a silvery spot the size of a dollar.
- dollarfish — butterfish.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- domiciliar — a canon of a minor order.
- dominators — Plural form of dominator.
- dominatrix — a woman who plays the dominant role in a sado-masochistic sexual relationship or encounter.
- door chain — a short chain with a removable slide fitting that can be attached between the inside of a door and the doorjamb to prevent the door from being opened more than a few inches without the chain being removed.
- dorsal fin — the fin or finlike integumentary expansion generally developed on the back of aquatic vertebrates.
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- dorsigrade — (of animals such as certain armadillos) walking on the backs of the toes
- dot matrix — a method of forming characters and graphics, used by CRTs and other screens, some printers (dot-matrix printers) and some plotters, by creating the desired pattern using dots from a dense matrix.
- dot-matrix — using matrix dots
- downstairs — down the stairs.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dracontine — Belonging to a dragon.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- dragonling — (fantasy) A baby dragon.
- dragonskin — The skin of a dragon, or leather made from it.
- dragooning — Present participle of dragoon.
- drainboard — a working surface beside or on a kitchen sink, formed and inclined to drain into the sink.
- drainspout — downspout.
- drearihood — (obsolete) affliction; dreariness.
- drearisome — Very dreary.
- dromomania — An irrational impulse to wander or travel without purpose.
- dronabinol — Synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- 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)
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.