10-letter words containing d, i, a, t
- standstill — a state of cessation of movement or action; halt; stop: The ball rolled to a standstill.
- star drill — a chisellike drill for masonry or plasterwork, having a pointed head faceted in alternately projecting and reentering angles.
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- state bird — a bird chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state-wide — extending throughout all parts of a state in the U.S.: a statewide search.
- 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.
- steadiness — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- step aside — move to one side
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stradivari — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1644?–1737, Italian violinmaker of Cremona (pupil of Nicolò Amati).
- 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
- strap-laid — noting a type of flat cordage made by stitching strands together side by side.
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
- 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.
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- submediant — the sixth tone of a diatonic scale, being midway between the subdominant and the upper tonic.
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- syndicated — a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations: The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying syndicate.
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- table-side — the area around or beside a table.
- tabloid tv — a television program or television programming that is lurid or sensational, as unconventional newscasts and gossipy talk shows.
- taeniacide — an agent that destroys tapeworms.
- taffetized — resembling taffeta
- tailcoated — wearing a tailcoat
- tailorbird — any of several small Asian passerine birds, especially of the genus Orthotomus, that stitch leaves together to form and conceal their nests.
- take aside — talk to privately
- take sides — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- talk dirty — use lewd sexual language
- talk radio — a radio format featuring talk shows and listener call-ins.
- tall drink — a beverage consisting of liquor and a sparkling soda, fruit juice, or the like, to which may be added other ingredients, served in a tall glass, usually with ice.
- talmi gold — a metal made by rolling gold on brass, used in making costume jewelry.
- tamil nadu — a large state in S India: formerly a presidency; boundaries readjusted on a linguistic basis 1956. 50,216 sq. mi. (130,058 sq. km). Capital: Chennai.
- tandemwise — in the manner of a tandem
- tantalised — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- tantalized — to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
- 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.
- tardy slip — a slip of paper given to students who are late for school
- tawdriness — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.