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10-letter words containing a, d, r, e

  • day letter — a telegram sent during the day at a slightly cheaper rate
  • day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
  • day sailer — a small sailboat without sleeping accommodations, suitable for short trips.
  • day trader — On the stock market, day traders are traders who buy and sell particular securities on the same day.
  • daydreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of daydream.
  • daydreamer — a reverie indulged in while awake.
  • de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
  • de la mare — Walter (John). 1873–1956, English poet and novelist, noted esp for his evocative verse for children. His works include the volumes of poetry The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) and Peacock Pie (1913) and the novel Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
  • de la warr — Baron, title of Thomas West, known as Lord Delaware. 1577–1618, English administrator in America; first governor of Virginia (1610)
  • deaconries — Plural form of deaconry.
  • dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
  • dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
  • dead water — water eddying beside a moving hull, especially directly astern.
  • deadpanner — a person who has a deliberately emotionless face
  • deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
  • deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
  • deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
  • dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
  • dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
  • deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
  • death care — the products, services, and arrangements having to do with funerals and burials.
  • death rate — The death rate is the number of people per thousand who die in a particular area during a particular period of time.
  • death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
  • death star — ["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labelled 4.2BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses "death star" to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light - a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
  • death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
  • debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
  • debit card — A debit card is a bank card that you can use to pay for things. When you use it the money is taken out of your bank account immediately.
  • debonairly — In a debonair manner.
  • debonnaire — courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm: a debonair gentleman.
  • decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
  • decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
  • decagramme — ten grammes
  • decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
  • decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
  • decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
  • decameters — Plural form of decameter.
  • decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
  • decandrian — having or characterized by ten stamens or male organs in flowers
  • decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
  • decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
  • decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
  • decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
  • deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
  • deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
  • deck crane — a deck-mounted crane used for loading and unloading cargo
  • deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
  • declarable — that can be or must be declared for taxation
  • declarants — Plural form of declarant.
  • declarator — an action seeking to have some right, status, etc, judicially ascertained
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