10-letter words containing d, a, r, i, u, s
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- mordacious — biting or given to biting.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- quadratics — a quadratic polynomial or equation.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadrilles — Plural form of quadrille.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- quandaries — Plural form of quandary.
- quasiorder — (set theory) A preorder.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radius rod — (in a feathering paddle wheel) any of the rods, meeting in a hub mounted eccentrically with the paddle-wheel shaft, for feathering the paddles while in the water.
- residually — in a residual manner.
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- ritualised — to practice ritualism.
- sdrucciola — (of rhymes) triple
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- subsidiary — serving to assist or supplement; auxiliary; supplementary.
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- sugar bird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- synandrium — a peculiar fusion of stamens
- translucid — translucent.
- unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
- under sail — If you cross the sea under sail, you cross it in a ship that has sails rather than an engine.
- underwaist — a blouse worn under another.
- unparadise — to deprive of or expel from paradise
- unravished — to rape (a woman).
- unsalaried — worker: hourly wage
- unstrained — not under strain or tension: an easy, unstrained manner.
- unstriated — marked with striae; furrowed; striped; streaked.
- vide supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see above
- wristguard — A band of leather or leatherlike material worn around the wrist for support and protection, especially for athletic activities such as archery and fencing.