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10-letter words containing d, i, a, s

  • 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.
  • ship-bread — hardtack.
  • shiplapped — of, related to, or resembling shiplap
  • shit-faced — very drunk.
  • short-laid — hard-laid.
  • siad barre — Muhammad, 1919–1995, Somali army officer and political leader: president 1969–91.
  • siddhartha — an epithet of Buddha meaning “he who has attained his goal.”.
  • side chain — a group of atoms bound to an atom, usually a carbon, that forms part of a larger chain or ring in a molecule
  • side chair — a straight-backed chair without arms.
  • side plate — a small plate used for bread or other accompaniments to a meal
  • side salad — A side salad is a bowl of salad for one person which is served with a main meal.
  • side table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
  • side-table — a table intended to be placed against a wall.
  • 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.
  • sidesaddle — a saddle for women on which the rider sits, facing forward, usually with both feet on the left side of the horse.
  • 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.
  • sigillarid — a fossilized, tree-like plant of the genus Sigillaria
  • signal red — pimento (def 3).
  • silk gland — any of several glands, as in various insects and spiders, that secrete a viscid protein substance which hardens into silk on contact with air.
  • sinusoidal — Mathematics. of or relating to a sinusoid.
  • sit around — be idle, lounge about
  • skid a rig — If you skid a rig, you slide it from one well hole to another.
  • skid chain — a chain fitting over the tire of a car, truck, or other vehicle, to increase traction and prevent skidding on roads covered with ice or snow.
  • slab-sided — having the sides long and flat, like slabs.
  • 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.
  • socialised — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • socialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • sociodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which each patient assumes and dramatizes a variety of roles, usually focusing on problems and conflicts arising in group situations.
  • 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.
  • sodcasting — the practice of playing music through the speakers of a mobile phone in a public space
  • soi-disant — calling oneself thus; self-styled.
  • soil-based — having soil as the main constituent
  • solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.
  • solenoidal — of or relating to a solenoid.
  • solidarily — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
  • solidarism — the social theory of the solidarity of interests
  • solidarist — a person who adheres to solidarism
  • solidarity — union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.
  • solidarize — to unite or come together; become solidified.
  • solifidian — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
  • somaliland — a coastal region in E Africa, including Djibouti, Somalia, and the Ogaden part of Ethiopia.
  • soundalike — a person or thing that sounds like another, especially a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
  • spadiceous — Botany. of the nature of a spadix. bearing a spadix.
  • spasmodist — a person who is spasmodic, especially in style, as a writer, painter, etc.
  • spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
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