10-letter words containing d, i, r
- adsorptive — relating to or characterized by adsorption
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- adulterize — to commit adultery
- adverbials — Plural form of adverbial.
- adversaria — a collection of notes, remarks or observations
- advertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- advertiser — An advertiser is a person or company that pays for a product, event, or job to be advertised in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster.
- advertises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advertise.
- advertized — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- advertizer — One who advertizes.
- advisatory — advisory
- advisorate — an advisory body or group
- advisories — Plural form of advisory.
- aerobridge — A telescoping corridor that extends from an airport terminal to an aircraft and allows secure boarding and disembarkation of passengers.
- affrighted — to frighten.
- aforesaide — Archaic spelling of aforesaid.
- africander — one of a breed of red beef cattle, raised originally in southern Africa, well adapted to high temperatures.
- afrikander — a breed of humpbacked beef cattle originally raised in southern Africa
- aggrandise — to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
- aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- aid worker — a person who works for an aid agency
- aids virus — a variable retrovirus that invades and inactivates helper T cells of the immune system and is a cause of AIDS and AIDS-related complex: variants were identified in several laboratories and independently named lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 3 (HTLV-3) and AIDS-related virus (ARV) the name human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) being subsequently proposed by an international taxonomy committee.
- air bridge — a link by air transport between two places, esp two places separated by a stretch of sea
- air-cooled — An air-cooled engine is prevented from getting too hot when it is running by cool air that passes over it, rather than being cooled by a liquid.
- air-logged — (of a pump or system of piping) hindered in its functioning by an air lock; air-bound.
- air-minded — interested in or promoting aviation or aircraft
- airbrushed — Simple past tense and past participle of airbrush.
- airdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of airdrop.
- alderflies — Plural form of alderfly.
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- aleixandre — Vicente (viˈθɛnte). 1898–1984, Spanish poet, whose collections include La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love): Nobel prize for literature 1977
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- alexandria — the chief port of Egypt, on the Nile Delta: cultural centre of ancient times, founded by Alexander the Great (332 bc). Pop: 3 760 000 (2005 est)
- alisanders — Alternative form of alexanders (plant).
- almoravide — a member of a fanatical people of Berber origin and Islamic faith, who founded an empire in N Africa that spread over much of Spain in the 11th century ad
- alter idem — another of the same kind; second self
- ambidexter — someone who is ambidextrous
- amer. ind. — American Indian
- amerindian — Amerindian means the same as American Indian.
- amiodarone — a substance, C 25 H 29 I 2 NO 3 , used in the treatment of heart arrhythmias.
- anacardium — a genus of plants in the Anacardiaceae family found chiefly in tropical areas
- andragogic — the methods or techniques used to teach adults: Many educators believe that the principles of andragogy, as advanced by Malcolm Knowles, have great relevance to adult education; others are not so certain.
- androecium — the stamens of a flowering plant collectively
- androgenic — any substance, as testosterone or androsterone, that promotes male characteristics.
- anhidrosis — the absence of sweating
- anhidrotic — curbing the secretion of sweat
- anhydremia — an abnormal decrease in the volume of the blood, due to loss of water.
- anhydrides — Plural form of anhydride.
- anhydrosis — the deficiency or absence of perspiration; adiaphoresis.