10-letter words containing a, c, r, d
- diffracted — Simple past tense and past participle of diffract.
- dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
- dining car — a railroad car equipped with tables and chairs, in which meals are served.
- dinosauric — Of or pertaining to dinosaurs.
- direct tax — a tax exacted directly from the persons who will bear the burden of it (without reimbursement to them at the expense of others), as a poll tax, a general property tax, or an income tax.
- directable — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disaccords — Plural form of disaccord.
- disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
- discarding — Get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable.
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
- discharger — Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.
- discharges — Plural form of discharge.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- discreated — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disgracing — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
- disk crank — a crank having the form of a disk with a crankpin mounted off-center.
- disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
- disorganic — Not organic; having no organization.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- distracted — Obsolete. distracted.
- distracter — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- distractor — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dixiecrats — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.
- dog collar — a collar used to restrain or identify a dog.
- dog-collar — A dog-collar is a stiff, round, white collar that fastens at the back and that is worn by Christian priests and ministers.
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- domiciliar — a canon of a minor order.
- donor card — a signed and witnessed card, meant to be carried in a wallet, purse, etc., specifying a person's wish to offer body organs or parts for transplantation or scientific use in case of death.
- 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.
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- 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.