10-letter words containing a, s, o, d
- distrainor — (legal) One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
- divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divisorial — Lb maths Related to a divisor.
- do a skase — to skip the country while owing a large amount of money
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- docimastic — of or relating to docimasy
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- docosanoic — behenic.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.
- dodecanese — a group of 12 Greek islands in the Aegean, off the SW coast of Turkey: belonged to Italy 1911–45. 1035 sq. mi. (2680 sq. km).
- dog basket — a basket for a dog to sleep in
- dog salmon — chum salmon.
- dog's-tail — any of several grasses of the genus Cynosurus, esp C. cristatus (crested dog's-tail), that are native to Europe and have flowers clustered in a dense narrow spike
- dogmatists — Plural form of dogmatist.
- dogmatizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dogmatize.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- 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?
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- dominators — Plural form of dominator.
- donatistic — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsaying — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- doorframes — Plural form of doorframe.
- 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)
- dos passos — John (Roderigo) [ro-dree-goh] /rɒˈdri goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1970, U.S. novelist.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- downdrafts — Plural form of downdraft.
- downgrades — Plural form of downgrade.
- downscaled — Simple past tense and past participle of downscale.
- downstairs — down the stairs.
- downstater — A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York.
- downstream — upstream
- downwashes — Plural form of downwash.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- dragonskin — The skin of a dragon, or leather made from it.
- drainspout — downspout.
- drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking