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

  • 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.
  • dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
  • doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
  • dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
  • dogmatizer — One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
  • dollarspot — a turf disease caused by the fungus Sclerotinia or related genera, characterized by small, brown to straw-colored, round patches of dead grass that gradually spread and coalesce.
  • dominators — Plural form of dominator.
  • dominatrix — a woman who plays the dominant role in a sado-masochistic sexual relationship or encounter.
  • doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
  • 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
  • downdrafts — Plural form of downdraft.
  • downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
  • downstairs — down the stairs.
  • downstater — A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York.
  • downstream — upstream
  • 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.
  • draft beer — beer drawn or available to be drawn from a cask or barrel.
  • draft card — the card issued to men who registered for the draft
  • draft mark — any of a series of figures or marks at the stem or stern of a vessel indicating the distance vertically from the lowermost part of the hull.
  • draft mill — smokejack.
  • draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
  • draftiness — The characteristic of being drafty.
  • drag strip — a straight, paved area or course where drag races are held, as a section of road or airplane runway.
  • dragonette — A small or female dragon.
  • dragonroot — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
  • drainspout — downspout.
  • drake foot — a pad foot having the form of three connected lobes.
  • drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
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