10-letter words containing a, d, r, s
- eavesdrops — Plural form of eavesdrop.
- editorials — Plural form of editorial.
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- embarassed — Misspelling of embarrassed.
- embassador — Archaic form of ambassador.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- emparadise — to turn (a place or state) into a paradise
- endeavours — Plural form of endeavour.
- endorsable — (legal, of a driving offence) Leading to endorsement of one's driving licence with penalty points.
- endurances — Plural form of endurance.
- eradicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eradicate.
- erase head — an electromagnet that can erase information on a magnetic medium
- escadrille — A French squadron of aircraft.
- espadrille — A light canvas shoe with a plaited fiber sole.
- espaliered — Simple past tense and past participle of espalier.
- estrangled — Simple past tense and past participle of estrangle.
- everglades — Plural form of everglade.
- extradites — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extradite.
- extradoses — Plural form of extrados.
- fair-sized — quite big
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- fallboards — Plural form of fallboard.
- false-card — to play a false card.
- farmsteads — Plural form of farmstead.
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fassbinder — Rainer Werner [rahy-ner] /ˈraɪ nər/ (Show IPA), 1946–82, German film actor and director.
- fatshedera — an evergreen garden shrub with shiny green leaves and umbels of pale green flowers; a bigeneric hybrid between Fatsia japonica moseri and Hedera hibernica: family Araliaceae
- federalese — awkward, evasive, or pretentious prose said to characterize the publications and correspondence of U.S. federal bureaus.
- federalism — the federal principle of government.
- federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- fieldfares — Plural form of fieldfare.
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebrands — Plural form of firebrand.
- firedrakes — Plural form of firedrake.
- fireguards — Plural form of fireguard.
- first dark — twilight.
- first hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- first-hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- fixed star — any of the stars which apparently always retain the same position in respect to one another.
- flash card — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- flashboard — a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.
- flashcards — Plural form of flashcard.
- fledermaus — an opera (1874) by Johann Strauss, Jr.
- flindersia — a genus of tree native to Australasia, containing fourteen species
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
- flustrated — flustered; agitated.
- foederatus — A confederate. One of the tribes bound by treaty, who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose.
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.