10-letter words containing c, d, r, o
- discounter — a person who discounts.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- discoursed — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discourser — One who discourses; a narrator or speaker.
- discourses — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- discoverer — a person who discovers.
- discretion — the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice: It is entirely within my discretion whether I will go or stay.
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- discursion — an instance of discursive writing, speech, etc.; a wandering or logically unconnected statement.
- discursory — of or relating to discourse
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- disjunctor — a small body found in the spores of some fungi
- disorganic — Not organic; having no organization.
- distractor — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dockworker — a person employed on the docks of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- doctorfish — a surgeonfish, especially Acanthurus chirurgus, of the West Indies, having a bluish body and black tail.
- doctorless — Without a doctor or doctors.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.
- documenter — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dog collar — a collar used to restrain or identify a dog.
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- 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.
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- domiciliar — a canon of a minor order.
- 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.
- 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.
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- dot-commer — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- dove color — warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- 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.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dress coat — tail coat.
- dress code — a set of rules specifying the garb or type of clothing to be worn by a group or by people under specific circumstances: a military dress code; The restaurant's dress code requires men to wear jackets and ties at dinner.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.