10-letter words containing d, i, a, s
- unidealism — the state of being unidealistic or tendency not to be idealistic
- unisolated — to set or place apart; detach or separate so as to be alone.
- unparadise — to deprive of or expel from paradise
- unravished — to rape (a woman).
- unsalaried — worker: hourly wage
- unsatiated — satisfied, as one's appetite or desire, to the point of boredom.
- unsituated — located; placed.
- unsteadily — not steady or firm; unstable; shaky: an unsteady hand.
- unstrained — not under strain or tension: an easy, unstrained manner.
- unstriated — marked with striae; furrowed; striped; streaked.
- upanishads — any of a class of speculative prose treatises composed between the 8th and 6th centuries b.c. and first written a.d. c1300: they represent a philosophical development beyond the Vedas, having as their principal message the unity of Brahman and Atman.
- upstanding — upright; honorable; straightforward.
- upsy-daisy — an expression, usually of reassurance, uttered as when someone, esp a child, stumbles or is being lifted up
- usnic acid — an antibacterial substance, C 18 H 16 O 7 , derived from lichens of the genus Usnea.
- val-d'oise — a department in N France. 482 sq. mi. (1248 sq. km). Capital: Pontoise.
- vanquished — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- vice squad — a police squad charged with enforcing laws dealing with gambling, prostitution, and other forms of vice.
- vide supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see above
- visual aid — any of various materials depending on the sense of sight, as films, slides, photographs, etc., used as aids in teaching.
- vodcasting — the creation and provision of video files for download to a computer, MP3 player, etc
- wainscoted — Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
- waist-deep — being at or rising to the level of the waist.
- waistbands — Plural form of waistband.
- waldensian — a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.
- wanderings — Plural form of wandering.
- wardenship — The state of being a warden.
- warlordism — a military leader, especially of a warlike nation.
- watersider — a wharf labourer
- waterskied — Simple past tense and past participle of waterski.
- waterslide — Alternative form of water slide.
- wave aside — If you wave aside something such as a suggestion, explanation, or idea, you decide that it is not important enough to consider seriously.
- waveguides — Plural form of waveguide.
- whiteheads — Plural form of whitehead.
- whitsunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
- widespread — spread over or open, or occupying a wide space.
- wild basil — a European plant, Satureja vulgaris (or Clinopodium vulgare), with dense clusters of small pink or whitish flowers: family Lamiaceae
- wild beast — savage animal
- wild pansy — any uncultivated or wild form of the common pansy, Viola tricolor.
- wild senna — a subshrubby senna, Cassia marilandica, of the eastern U.S., having yellow flowers.
- willemstad — the main island of the Netherlands Antilles, off the NW coast of Venezuela. 173 sq. mi. (448 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
- wilson dam — a dam on the Tennessee River, in NW Alabama, at Muscle Shoals: a part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. 4862 feet (1482 meters) long; 137 feet (42 meters) high.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- wind shaft — the shaft driven by the sails of a windmill.
- wind shake — Also called anemosis. a flaw in wood supposed to be caused by the action of strong winds upon the trunk of the tree.
- wind shear — the rate at which wind velocity changes from point to point in a given direction.
- windbreaks — Plural form of windbreak.
- windlassed — Simple past tense and past participle of windlass.
- windlasses — (nautical) Plural form of windlass.
- wingspread — the distance between the most outward tips of the wings when they are as extended as possible.
- withstands — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.