10-letter words containing a, d, r, t
- devastator — to lay waste; render desolate: The invaders devastated the city. Synonyms: destroy, sack, despoil, raze, ruin, level. Antonyms: create, erect, develop.
- dewatering — the act of removing water
- dextrality — the state or quality of having the right side or its parts or members different from and, usually, more efficient than the left side or its parts or members; right-handedness.
- dextranase — an enzyme which breaks down dextran, and is therefore useful for, among other things, preventing tooth decay
- dextrinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin.
- diacritics — Plural form of diacritic.
- diagometer — an instrument invented by Rousseau, formerly used to measure the electrical conductivity of substances
- dial train — Horology. the part of a going train that drives the minute and hour hands.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- diatribist — a person who uses diatribes in his or her speeches or writing, etc
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- diffracted — Simple past tense and past participle of diffract.
- dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
- dilatorily — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- direct tax — a tax exacted directly from the persons who will bear the burden of it (without reimbursement to them at the expense of others), as a poll tax, a general property tax, or an income tax.
- directable — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- 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.