10-letter words containing a, d, u, r
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- cardueline — of or relating to the passerine subfamily Carduelinae, including the goldfinches, siskins, canaries and crossbills.
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
- cauterized — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterize.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
- churchward — in the direction of the church
- churchyard — A churchyard is an area of land around a church where dead people are buried.
- circulated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- coadjutors — Plural form of coadjutor.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- collarstud — a stud that is used to attach a removable collar to a shirt
- communards — Plural form of communard.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- coruscated — Simple past tense and past participle of coruscate.
- court card — (in a pack of playing cards) a king, queen, or jack of any suit
- court hand — a style of handwriting formerly used in English law courts
- courtyards — Plural form of courtyard.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crassitude — gross ignorance or stupidity.
- crenulated — minutely crenate, as the margin of certain leaves.
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
- cuadrillas — Plural form of cuadrilla.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- daguerrean — relating to Daguerre or the daguerreotype
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- darius iii — died 330 bc, last Achaemenid king of Persia (336–330), who was defeated by Alexander the Great
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- 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.
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- defaulters — Plural form of defaulter.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- delustrant — an agent which removes lustre from something
- demeanours — Plural form of demeanour.
- demeasnure — demeanour
- demiquaver — a sixteenth note; semiquaver.
- demurrages — Plural form of demurrage.
- denaturant — to deprive (something) of its natural character, properties, etc.
- denaturing — Present participle of denature.