10-letter words containing a, d, u, r, e
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- rudderhead — the upper end of a rudderpost, to which a tiller, quadrant, or yoke is attached.
- ruddevator — a control surface functioning both as a rudder and as an elevator.
- rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- run ragged — to cause to be exhausted, as by constant pressure or harassment
- run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- rural dean — a cleric ranking just below an archdeacon, in charge of an archdeaconry.
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- self-guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- shear stud — a stud that transfers shear stress between metal and concrete in composite structural members in which the stud is welded to the metal component
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- snare drum — a small double-headed drum, carried at the side or placed on a stationary stand, having snares across the lower head to produce a rattling or reverberating effect.
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spread out — extend, splay
- squanderer — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- square rod — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one rod on each side.
- squarehead — a stupid person.
- squaretoed — having a broad, square toe, as a shoe.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- sub-leader — a person or thing that leads.
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subdeanery — the position or office of a subdean
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- sunderance — to separate; part; divide; sever.
- sunderland — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England.
- super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
- superadded — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
- supergrade — a high-level rank, Grade 16, 17, or 18, in the federal civil service.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- take guard — (of a batsman) to choose a position in front of the wicket to receive the bowling, esp by requesting the umpire to indicate his position relative to the stumps
- tax burden — the amount of tax paid by a person, company, or country in a specified period considered as a proportion of total income in that period.
- tax refund — rebate on overpaid tax
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- torquemada — Tomás de [taw-mahs th e] /tɔˈmɑs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1420–98, Spanish inquisitor general.
- traductive — able to be deduced or transmitted
- transducer — a device that receives a signal in the form of one type of energy and converts it to a signal in another form: A microphone is a transducer that converts acoustic energy into electrical impulses.
- transudate — the act or process of transuding.
- tripudiate — to dance for joy