10-letter words containing d, e, a, i, r
- state bird — a bird chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- statesider — a person who lives in one of the forty-eight contiguous states of the U.S.
- staudinger — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1881–1965, German chemist: Nobel prize 1953.
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- stromateid — any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth.
- subcarbide — a carbide containing less than the normal proportion of carbon.
- summarised — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- swipe card — a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
- tape drive — a program-controlled device that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic tape which moves past a read-write head.
- tapestried — furnished or covered with tapestries.
- taradiddle — a small lie; fib.
- tardigrade — Also called bear animalcule, water bear. any microscopic, chiefly herbivorous invertebrate of the phylum Tardigrada, living in water, on mosses, lichens, etc.
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- tax credit — reduction in tax owed
- taxidermic — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- thailander — Also called Thailander [tahy-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈtaɪˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a native or descendant of a native of Thailand.
- the lizard — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
- thenardite — a mineral, sodium sulfate, Na 2 SO 4 , occurring in white crystals and masses, especially in salt lakes and arid regions.
- theravadin — Hinayanist.
- third base — the third in counterclockwise order of the bases from home plate.
- third mate — the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the second mate.
- third-rate — of the third rate, quality, or class.
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- threadlike — a fine cord of flax, cotton, or other fibrous material spun out to considerable length, especially when composed of two or more filaments twisted together.
- tidal bore — an abrupt rise of tidal water moving rapidly inland from the mouth of an estuary.
- tidewaiter — a customs officer who checks goods upon a vessel's landing, to secure the payment of duties.
- timberhead — the top end of a timber, rising above the deck and serving for belaying ropes.
- timberland — land covered with timber-producing forests.
- timberyard — an establishment where timber and sometimes other building materials are stored or sold
- time draft — a draft payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
- titian red — reddish-gold, like the hair colour used in many of the works of Titian
- tomeraider — (application, file format) A cross-platform reference and e-book reader program and file format. TomeRaider files are highly compressed and cross-referenced. The reader displays the text and can follow the hypertext links embedded in the text.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- trade bill — a bill of exchange drawn on and accepted (trade acceptance) by a trader in payment for goods
- trade fair — exhibition by a particular industry
- trade wind — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
- traditores — an early Christian who betrayed other Christians at the time of the Roman persecutions.
- traductive — able to be deduced or transmitted
- trafficked — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- trail herd — a herd of cattle driven along a trail, especially from their home range to market.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transpired — to occur; happen; take place.