10-letter words containing a, d, r, i, t
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disastrous — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.
- discreated — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- disentrail — to remove the entrails from
- disentrain — to go or set down from a train
- disfeature — to mar the features of; disfigure.
- dishearted — Simple past tense and past participle of disheart.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- disinthral — (transitive) To set free from thraldom or oppression.
- dismantler — One who dismantles.
- disnatured — deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural
- disparates — unlike things or people
- disparting — Present participle of dispart.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispersant — something that disperses.
- disrelated — lacking relation or connection; unrelated.
- disruptant — That which disrupts.
- dissertate — to discuss a subject fully and learnedly; discourse.
- dissipater — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- distracted — Obsolete. distracted.
- distracter — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- distractor — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- distrained — Simple past tense and past participle of distrain.
- distrainee — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- distrainer — Alternative form of distrainor.
- distrainor — (legal) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
- distraught — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distringas — (legal) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
- disturbant — having a disturbing effect, disquieting
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- dithyrambs — Plural form of dithyramb.
- 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.
- diurnalist — a person who writes a diurnal; a journalist
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- divemaster — a professional qualified to oversee scuba diving operations, as in salvage work or at a resort, and responsible for procedures and safety, monitoring the whereabouts of divers underwater or at the surface, and making rescues when necessary.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- 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.
- dogmatizer — One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
- dominators — Plural form of dominator.
- dominatrix — a woman who plays the dominant role in a sado-masochistic sexual relationship or encounter.
- 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