10-letter words containing a, r, d, o
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disastrous — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- disembargo — to remove an embargo from.
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- disorganic — Not organic; having no organization.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- dissuasory — dissuasive
- distractor — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- distrainor — (legal) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
- 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.
- divinatory — the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means.
- divisorial — Lb maths Related to a divisor.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.
- dog collar — a collar used to restrain or identify a dog.
- dog warden — dogcatcher.
- dog-collar — A dog-collar is a stiff, round, white collar that fastens at the back and that is worn by Christian priests and ministers.
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- 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.
- dollar day — a sale day on which retail merchandise is reduced to a dollar or very low price.
- dollar gap — the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.
- dollarbird — a common roller, Eurystomus orientalis, of Asia and Australia, having on its wings a silvery spot the size of a dollar.
- dollarfish — butterfish.
- dollarless — without dollars; having no money
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- 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.
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- domiciliar — a canon of a minor order.
- dominators — Plural form of dominator.
- dominatrix — a woman who plays the dominant role in a sado-masochistic sexual relationship or encounter.
- donor card — a signed and witnessed card, meant to be carried in a wallet, purse, etc., specifying a person's wish to offer body organs or parts for transplantation or scientific use in case of death.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- door chain — a short chain with a removable slide fitting that can be attached between the inside of a door and the doorjamb to prevent the door from being opened more than a few inches without the chain being removed.
- doorframes — Plural form of doorframe.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- dorsal fin — the fin or finlike integumentary expansion generally developed on the back of aquatic vertebrates.
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- dorsigrade — (of animals such as certain armadillos) walking on the backs of the toes
- dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
- 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.