10-letter words containing d, e, a, r, i
- ritualised — to practice ritualism.
- ritualized — to practice ritualism.
- river head — the source of a river
- riverwards — towards a river
- road movie — film in which story follows a journey
- roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- saccharide — an organic compound containing a sugar or sugars.
- sacralized — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- sacrificed — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- saltigrade — moving by leaping.
- sand tiger — any of several sharks of the family Odontaspididae, especially Odontaspis taurus, inhabiting shallow waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, having sharp, jagged teeth and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- sanderling — a common, small sandpiper, Calidris alba, inhabiting sandy beaches.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scarabaeid — belonging or pertaining to the Scarabaeidae, a family of lamellicorn beetles, including the scarabs, dung beetles, June bugs, and cockchafers.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- sea spider — any member of the arthropod class Pycnogonida, marine invertebrates with eight long walking legs attached to a small body consisting of a cephalothorax and vestigial abdomen.
- seferiades — Giorgos Stylianou [yawr-gaws stee-lyah-noo] /ˈyɔr gɔs ˌsti lyɑˈnu/ (Show IPA), (Giorgos Seferis) 1900–71, Greek poet and diplomat: Nobel Prize in literature 1963.
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- serenading — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- serialised — to publish in serial form.
- serradilla — a variety of clover, Ornithopus sativus, used as fodder for cattle
- sherardize — to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
- ship-bread — hardtack.
- siad barre — Muhammad, 1919–1995, Somali army officer and political leader: president 1969–91.
- side chair — a straight-backed chair without arms.
- sideboards — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
- sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
- siderostat — a telescopic device for reflecting the light of a star in a constant direction, the chief component of which is a plane mirror turned by a clock mechanism to correct for the rotation of the earth.
- sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
- sight-read — Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand.
- signal red — pimento (def 3).
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- soda niter — a white or transparent mineral, sodium nitrate, NaNO 3 , used chiefly as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of sulfuric and nitric acids and potassium nitrate.
- solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
- spear side — the male side, or line of descent, of a family (opposed to distaff side or spindle side).
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- spheroidal — pertaining to a spheroid or spheroids.
- spinigrade — a type of spiny echinoderm
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhead — a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
- stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
- staffrider — a person who illegally rides on the outside of a suburban train
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled