10-letter words containing d, a, u, t
- stamp duty — land tax
- stand mute — to refuse to plead guilty or not guilty
- star cloud — a cloudlike patch of light on the celestial sphere, consisting of a multitude of stars.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- steamed up — obscured by vapour
- stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stomodaeum — stomodeum.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- studebaker — Clement, 1831–1901, U.S. wagon maker and pioneer automobile designer.
- study hall — (in some schools) a room used solely or chiefly for studying.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- take guard — (of a batsman) to choose a position in front of the wicket to receive the bowling, esp by requesting the umpire to indicate his position relative to the stumps
- talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
- talked out — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tamil nadu — a large state in S India: formerly a presidency; boundaries readjusted on a linguistic basis 1956. 50,216 sq. mi. (130,058 sq. km). Capital: Chennai.
- tapped out — having no ready money; broke
- taste buds — one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
- tax burden — the amount of tax paid by a person, company, or country in a specified period considered as a proportion of total income in that period.
- tax refund — rebate on overpaid tax
- taxi squad — (formerly) a group of players under contract to and practicing with a professional team who are not on the team's roster as playing members and therefore are ineligible to play in official games.
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- testudinal — pertaining to or resembling a tortoise or tortoise shell.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the buddha — ?563–483 bc, a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher working in N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
- the undead — such supernatural beings collectively
- thousandth — last in order of a series of a thousand.
- tide-gauge — a gauge for measuring the level of the tide: usually equipped with a marigraph.
- toad juice — a fertilizer produced by liquidizing cane toads
- torquemada — Tomás de [taw-mahs th e] /tɔˈmɑs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1420–98, Spanish inquisitor general.
- traduction — a transmission or communication
- traductive — able to be deduced or transmitted
- transducer — a device that receives a signal in the form of one type of energy and converts it to a signal in another form: A microphone is a transducer that converts acoustic energy into electrical impulses.
- translucid — translucent.
- transudate — the act or process of transuding.
- tripudiary — pertaining to dancing
- tripudiate — to dance for joy
- trivandrum — a city in and the capital of Kerala state, in S India: Vishnu pilgrimage center.
- troubadour — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
- trump card — Cards. trump1 (def 1a).
- trunk road — A trunk road is a major road that has been specially built for travelling long distances. A trunk road is not as wide or as fast as a motorway.
- tudor arch — a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
- turbinated — shaped like a top
- turn heads — to be so beautiful, unusual, or impressive as to attract a lot of attention