10-letter words containing c, r, e, d
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
- 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.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- du cerceau — Androuet [ahn-droo-e] /ɑ̃ druˈɛ/ (Show IPA), Androuet du Cerceau.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- ecardinate — (of a mollusc or the shell of a mollusc) having no hinges
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- ectodermal — Of or pertaining to the ectoderm.
- ecuadorean — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- ecuadorian — person from Ecuador
- edificator — (rare) One who or that which edifies; an edifier.
- edit trace — (in electronic publishing) a record of editorial changes, additions, and deletions that can be displayed on a screen or printed out with edited copy.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- edulcorate — to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.
- electrodes — Plural form of electrode.
- elucidator — One who elucidates.
- embrocated — Simple past tense and past participle of embrocate.
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- enciphered — Simple past tense and past participle of encipher.
- encouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of encourage.
- encroached — Simple past tense and past participle of encroach.
- encumbered — Weighted down, loaded sufficiently to make slow.
- endergonic — (of a metabolic or chemical process) accompanied by or requiring the absorption of energy, the products being of greater free energy than the reactants.