10-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- dantrolene — a toxic orange powder, C 14 H 10 N 4 O 5 , used to control muscle spasms, as in the treatment of local trauma, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other neurological disorders.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- dartboards — Plural form of dartboard.
- dastardize — To make cowardly; to intimidate or dispirit.
- data entry — Data entry is the activity of putting data into a computer, for example, by using a keyboard.
- data frame — activation record
- datacenter — a facility equipped with or connected to one or more computers, used for processing or transmitting data.
- datacentre — Alternative spelling of data centre.
- datatrieve — (database, language) A query and report system for use with DEC's VMS (RMS, VAX Rdb/VMS or VAX DBMS).
- dating bar — singles bar.
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- 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 trader — On the stock market, day traders are traders who buy and sell particular securities on the same day.
- dead water — water eddying beside a moving hull, especially directly astern.
- deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
- deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
- 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.
- 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.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decameters — Plural form of decameter.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- 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.
- declarants — Plural form of declarant.
- declarator — an action seeking to have some right, status, etc, judicially ascertained
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decollator — (computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper.
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decolorate — to change or fade in colour
- decontract — (ambitransitive) To expand from a contracted state.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- decorators — Plural form of decorator.
- decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
- decreation — Destruction.
- dedecorate — (obsolete, transitive) To bring to shame; to disgrace.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- deep water — having, requiring, or operating in deep water: deepwater shipping; deepwater drilling for oil.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- defalcator — A defaulter or embezzler.