10-letter words containing d, i, s, u, a
- misandrous — Exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men.
- miseducate — to educate improperly.
- modularise — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- mordacious — biting or given to biting.
- muscadines — Plural form of muscadine.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- mutualised — Simple past tense and past participle of mutualise.
- nautiloids — Plural form of nautiloid.
- nondualism — The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena; that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
- nondualist — One who rejects dualism.
- nursemaids — Plural form of nursemaid.
- odalisques — Plural form of odalisque.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
- push aside — shove to one side
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- quadratics — a quadratic polynomial or equation.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadrilles — Plural form of quadrille.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- quandaries — Plural form of quandary.
- quasi-good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- quasiorder — (set theory) A preorder.
- quesadilla — a tortilla folded over a filling of shredded cheese, onions, and chilies and broiled or fried.
- quo vadis? — where are you going?
- quotidians — Plural form of quotidian.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radius rod — (in a feathering paddle wheel) any of the rods, meeting in a hub mounted eccentrically with the paddle-wheel shaft, for feathering the paddles while in the water.
- residually — in a residual manner.
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- ritualised — to practice ritualism.
- saint jude — the author of this, stated to be the brother of James (Jude 1) and almost certainly identical with Thaddaeus (Matthew 10:2–4). Feast day: Oct 28 or June 19
- salmagundi — a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad.
- sanctitude — holiness; saintliness; sanctity.
- scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
- scuba dive — go deep-sea swimming
- scuba-dive — to descend and swim underwater using a scuba device.
- sdrucciola — (of rhymes) triple
- seguidilla — Prosody. a stanza of four to seven lines with a distinctive rhythmic pattern.
- seleucidan — Seleucid.
- semifeudal — partly feudal
- sexualised — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.