10-letter words containing d, i, s, a
- bird grass — rough bluegrass
- black disc — a conventional black vinyl gramophone record as opposed to a compact disc
- blandisher — someone who blandishes
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- blue daisy — a bushy, composite shrub, Felicia amelloides, of southern Africa, having solitary, daisylike flowers with yellow disks and blue rays, grown as an ornamental.
- board side — the broad side of a piece of lumber.
- bois d'arc — Osage orange (def 1).
- boisbriand — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- bordelaise — denoting a brown sauce flavoured with red wine and sometimes mushrooms
- boundaries — something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- brake disc — a metal disc that revolves with the wheel in a disc brake
- brandished — to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish: Brandishing his sword, he rode into battle.
- breadstick — bread baked in a long thin crisp stick
- bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
- brigandish — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- caddis fly — any of an order (Trichoptera) of small, mothlike insects with a soft body, long antennae and legs, and two pairs of hairy, membranous wings
- caddisworm — the aquatic larva of a caddis fly, which constructs a protective case around itself made of silk, sand, stones, etc
- camisadoes — Plural form of camisado.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- candidates — Plural form of candidate.
- candidness — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- carbolised — phenolate (def 2).
- carbonised — Alternative spelling of carbonized.
- carcinoids — Plural form of carcinoid.
- cartridges — Plural form of cartridge.
- cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
- casinghead — the protruding part of a casing to which piping is attached
- cast aside — If you cast aside someone or something, you get rid of them because they are no longer necessary or useful to you.
- castigated — Simple past tense and past participle of castigate.
- catechised — Simple past tense and past participle of catechise.
- catostomid — (zoology) Any member of the Catostomidae.
- cauterised — Simple past tense and past participle of cauterise.
- celandines — Plural form of celandine.
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- cestoidean — one of the Cestoda, a class of tapeworm
- chancroids — Plural form of chancroid.
- chickadees — Plural form of chickadee.
- child seat — a type of child restraint consisting of a seat with safety features
- child star — a child who attains celebrity status