10-letter words containing c, r, e, d
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- rich media — any internet content that interacts with the user, for example by expanding or streaming video content when the user's mouse hovers over it
- ricocheted — the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.
- ridgecrest — a town in central California.
- ring dance — round dance.
- road racer — a driver, cyclist or athlete who takes part in a road race
- rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- run scared — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- saccharide — an organic compound containing a sugar or sugars.
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- sack dress — a loose, unbelted dress that hangs straight from the shoulder to the hemline.
- sacralized — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
- sacredness — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sacrificed — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scaldberry — the bramble or blackberry, Rubus fruticosus
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scar-faced — with a face marked by a scar or scars.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- scleroderm — a fish of the sclerodermi tribe
- score card — sport: card for recording results
- score draw — A score draw is the result of a football match in which both teams score at least one goal, and they score the same number of goals.
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- screedings — screeds or floor coverings
- screenland — filmdom.
- screwed up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- scrollhead — billethead.
- sculptured — having a surface or shape molded, marked, carved, indented, etc., by or as if by sculpture: sculptured leather belts.
- sea cradle — chiton (def 1).
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- second row — the forwards in the second row of a scrum
- second-run — designating or of:
- seductress — a woman who seduces.
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- sex-crazed — unhealthily obsessed with sexual activity
- short code — (language) (SHORTCODE) A pseudocode interpreter for mathematics problems, designed by John Mauchly in 1949 to execute on Eckert and Mauchly's BINAC and later on UNIVAC I and II. Short Code was possibly the first attempt at a high level language.
- side chair — a straight-backed chair without arms.
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.