10-letter words containing a, t, r, o
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- 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.
- 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.
- dominators — Plural form of dominator.
- dominatrix — a woman who plays the dominant role in a sado-masochistic sexual relationship or encounter.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- 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.
- dot-matrix — using matrix dots
- downdrafts — Plural form of downdraft.
- downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
- downstairs — down the stairs.
- downstater — A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York.
- downstream — upstream
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dracontine — Belonging to a dragon.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- dragonette — A small or female dragon.
- dragonroot — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- drainspout — downspout.
- drake foot — a pad foot having the form of three connected lobes.
- drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
- dreamboats — Plural form of dreamboat.
- dress coat — tail coat.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- e-passport — a passport with an embedded microchip carrying information about the holder
- each other — Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two (The two candidates respected each other) and one another in reference to three or more (The three nations threaten one another), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more. The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.
- earth tone — any of various warm, muted colors ranging basically from neutral to deep brown.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthwomen — Plural form of earthwoman.
- earthworks — Plural form of earthwork.
- earthworms — Plural form of earthworm.
- east timor — a small country in SE Asia, comprising part of the island of Timor: colonized by Portugal in the 19th century; declared independence in 1975 but immediately invaded by Indonesia; under UN administration from 1999 and an independent state from 2002. It is mountainous with a monsoon climate; subsistence agriculture is the main occupation. Languages: Portuguese, Tetun (a lingua franca), and Bahasa Indonesia. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: US dollar. Capital: Dili. Pop: 1 172 390 (2013 est). Area: 14 874 sq km (5743 sq miles)
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eastermost — (archaic) easternmost.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- ectocornea — the outer layer of the cornea.
- ectodermal — Of or pertaining to the ectoderm.
- ectoprocta — the phylum Bryozoa, especially as distinguished from the phylum Entoprocta by a body plan having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles.
- ectromelia — Medicine/Medical. the congenital absence or imperfection of a limb or limbs.
- edificator — (rare) One who or that which edifies; an edifier.
- editorials — Plural form of editorial.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate