10-letter words containing d, e, s, c, r
- districted — Simple past tense and past participle of district.
- dixiecrats — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- doctorless — Without a doctor or doctors.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
- dress coat — tail coat.
- dress code — a set of rules specifying the garb or type of clothing to be worn by a group or by people under specific circumstances: a military dress code; The restaurant's dress code requires men to wear jackets and ties at dinner.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- electrodes — Plural form of electrode.
- endurances — Plural form of endurance.
- eradicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eradicate.
- eroticised — Simple past tense and past participle of eroticise.
- escadrille — A French squadron of aircraft.
- false-card — to play a false card.
- fluoresced — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce.
- forecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- foreclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreclose.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- fricasseed — meat, especially chicken or veal, browned lightly, stewed, and served in a sauce made with its own stock.
- fructoside — a glycoside that yields fructose upon hydrolysis.
- gasconader — A great boaster; a blusterer.
- glycerides — Plural form of glyceride.
- god's acre — a cemetery, especially one adjacent to a church; churchyard.
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- herbicides — Plural form of herbicide.
- hexachords — Plural form of hexachord.
- hindrances — Plural form of hindrance.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
- hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.