10-letter words containing a, d, o, l
- spondaical — composed of spondees
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- squadronal — belonging or relating to a squadron or squadrons
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- stadholder — the chief magistrate of the former republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
- standalone — self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software.
- star cloud — a cloudlike patch of light on the celestial sphere, consisting of a multitude of stars.
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- tabloid tv — a television program or television programming that is lurid or sensational, as unconventional newscasts and gossipy talk shows.
- tailcoated — wearing a tailcoat
- tailorbird — any of several small Asian passerine birds, especially of the genus Orthotomus, that stitch leaves together to form and conceal their nests.
- talk radio — a radio format featuring talk shows and listener call-ins.
- talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
- talked out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tall order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- talmi gold — a metal made by rolling gold on brass, used in making costume jewelry.
- tanglewood — a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate (Tanglewood) in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tidal bore — an abrupt rise of tidal water moving rapidly inland from the mouth of an estuary.
- tidal pool — a pool of water remaining on a reef, shore platform, or beach after the tide has receded.
- tilt board — a seesaw.
- to end all — If you describe something as, for example, the deal to end all deals or the film to end all films, you mean that it is very important or successful, and that compared to it all other deals or films seem second-rate.
- toddy palm — any of several tropical Asian palms, as Caryota urens or Borassus flabellifer, yielding toddy.
- togolander — a former German protectorate in W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: E part is now the Republic of Togo; W part, a British mandate 1922–46 and trusteeship 1946–57, is now part of Ghana.
- top dollar — the maximum amount being or likely to be paid: to pay top dollar for the jewelry.
- top loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the top (distinguished from front loader).
- top-loader — a washing machine with a horizontal door in its top rather than a vertical one in its front
- toroidally — in a toroidal manner
- trailboard — an ornamented board extending on each side of the bow of a vessel from a figurehead or the like to abaft the hawse.
- tremolando — (of a piece of music) to be played with tremulous effect
- trilobated — having three lobes
- trochoidal — like, arranged or in the form of a trochoid, or belonging or relating to trochoids
- two-tailed — (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic differs significantly from a given value, where an error in either direction is relevant: for instance, in testing the fairness of scales, an inspector will seek to exclude both overweight and underweight goods
- ultrasound — Physics. sound with a frequency greater than 20,000 Hz, approximately the upper limit of human hearing.
- unabsolved — to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death.
- unallotted — to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
- unavowedly — in an unavowed or concealed manner
- undulation — an act of undulating; a wavelike motion.
- undulatory — Also, undular. moving in undulations.
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
- unfordable — (of a river, flood, stream, etc) not able to be forded
- unhallowed — not hallowed or consecrated; not regarded as holy or sacred: unhallowed ground.
- unimodular — (of a matrix) having its determinant equal to 1.
- unisolated — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- unlaboured — (of writing or artwork) not showing effort, but natural and flowing in style
- untailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- untowardly — in an untoward manner
- unviolated — not violated or desecrated