10-letter words containing d, i, r
- christened — to receive into the Christian church by baptism; baptize.
- christhood — the state of being the Christ, the anointed one of God
- chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
- chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
- chromidium — a length or particle of chromatin in cell cytoplasm
- chronicled — a chronological record of events; a history.
- chundering — vomit.
- cicatrized — Simple past tense and past participle of cicatrize.
- cinderella — If you describe a person or organization as a Cinderella, you mean that they receive very little attention and that they deserve to receive more.
- circulated — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- circumduce — to cause (something) to circulate on its axis
- circumduct — (obsolete) To lead about or astray.
- cirrigrade — moving by means of hairlike appendages
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- clavichord — A clavichord is a musical instrument rather like a small piano. When you press the keys, small pieces of metal come up and hit the strings. Clavichords were especially popular during the eighteenth century.
- clearfield — a town in N Utah.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- cloistered — If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you.
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- cnidarians — Plural form of cnidarian.
- cnidophore — a part or organ bearing cnidoblasts.
- co-ordinal — belonging to the same order.
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- codirector — a fellow director
- codiscover — to discover jointly
- cold drink — a beverage that is chilled.
- colorblind — unable to perceive colors or to distinguish between certain colors, as red and green
- colorfield — of, relating to, or characteristic of abstract painting in which large, flat areas of color are spread to cover the entire canvas and dominate over form and texture.
- colorslide — a color transparency, mounted usually between cardboard or plastic masks or glass plates, for projection onto a screen.
- concordial — characterized by concord
- concording — Present participle of concord.
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- confirmand — a candidate for confirmation
- conrad iii — 1093–1152, king of Germany 1138–52; uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire: founder of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
- conscribed — Simple past tense and past participle of conscribe.
- considered — A considered opinion or act is the result of careful thought.
- considerer — One who considers.
- contradict — If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
- cool drink — any soft drink
- coordinate — If you coordinate an activity, you organize the various people and things involved in it.
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- coradicate — (of multiple words) derived from the same root
- cordeliers — a Franciscan friar: so called from the knotted cord worn as a girdle.
- cordiality — warmth of feeling
- cordialize — to become warm and friendly
- cordierite — a grey or violet-blue dichroic mineral that consists of magnesium aluminium iron silicate in orthorhombic crystalline form and is found in metamorphic rocks. Formula: (Mg,Fe)2AL4Si5O18.nH2O
- cordillera — a series of parallel ranges of mountains, esp in the northwestern US
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- coresident — one of two or more computer programs stored in a computer memory simultaneously