10-letter words containing d, a, c, t
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- advertence — heedfulness or attentiveness
- advertency — the state or quality of being advertent.
- advocaters — Plural form of advocater.
- advocating — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocation — the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court
- advocative — characterized by advocating
- advocators — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocatory — of an advocate
- affectedly — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- afterdecks — Plural form of afterdeck.
- altar card — one of three cards having certain portions of the Mass printed on them, placed upright on the altar to assist the memory of the celebrant.
- anderlecht — a town in central Belgium, a suburb of Brussels. Pop: 92 755 (2004 est)
- anecdotage — anecdotes collectively
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes
- anhidrotic — curbing the secretion of sweat
- antecedent — An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.
- anteceding — to go before, in time, order, rank, etc.; precede: Shakespeare antecedes Milton.
- anthracoid — resembling anthrax
- anticodons — Plural form of anticodon.
- antidromic — (of nerve fibres) conducting nerve impulses in a direction opposite to normal
- anucleated — without a nucleus
- apocopated — to shorten by apocope.
- apodeictic — unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration
- ascendants — Plural form of ascendant.
- ascerbated — Simple past tense and past participle of ascerbate.
- associated — If one thing is associated with another, the two things are connected with each other.
- atascadero — a town in SW California.
- attack dog — a dog trained to attack on command
- attendance — Someone's attendance at an event or an institution is the fact that they are present at the event or go regularly to the institution.
- attendancy — the condition or quality of accompanying or attending
- audacities — Plural form of audacity.
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- autoclaved — Simple past tense and past participle of autoclave.
- autodidact — a person who is self-taught
- back-dated — If a purchase order or invoice is back-dated, it is given a date that is some time before the date it was actually prepared.
- backdating — Present participle of backdate.
- backend-to — in a reversed position; backward.
- backlisted — Simple past tense and past participle of backlist.
- bandicoots — Plural form of bandicoot.
- batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
- bed jacket — a woman's short upper garment worn over a nightgown when sitting up in bed
- beta decay — the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- bird-watch — to identify wild birds and observe their actions and habits in their natural habitat as a recreation.
- black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- bradytelic — of or relating to evolution at a rate slower than the standard for a given group of plants or animals.