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