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10-letter words containing d, i, t, r

  • 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.
  • stridulous — Also, stridulant. making or having a harsh or grating sound.
  • strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
  • stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
  • strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.
  • strip down — remove paint or wallpaper from
  • strobiloid — resembling a strobila
  • 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.
  • sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
  • sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
  • sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
  • sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
  • suit-dress — a costume ensemble for women, consisting of a dress and matching coat or jacket.
  • summertide — summer time
  • surge tide — a powerful and often destructive tide that may occur when an abnormally high tide (e.g. at the autumn equinox) coincides with high wind and low atmospheric pressure
  • switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
  • swordstick — a hollow walking stick containing a short sword or dagger
  • syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
  • tailorbird — any of several small Asian passerine birds, especially of the genus Orthotomus, that stitch leaves together to form and conceal their nests.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tax credit — reduction in tax owed
  • taxidermic — the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
  • teddy girl — a rebellious British girl who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, affected the dress of the reign of Edward VII.
  • teethridge — alveolar ridge.
  • telebridge — a television broadcast using satellite technology to enable discussion between studio audiences in different countries
  • tenderizer — to make (meat) tender, as by pounding or by a chemical process or treatment.
  • tenderling — a weak or effeminate person
  • tenderloin — (in beef or pork) the tender meat of the muscle running through the sirloin and terminating before the ribs.
  • tendrilled — having tendrils
  • tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
  • tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
  • test drive — If you test drive a car or other vehicle, you drive it for a short period in order to assess its performance before deciding whether to buy it.
  • test-drill — to drill a test hole (in)
  • test-drive — to drive (a vehicle) on the highway or a special track or route in order to evaluate performance and reliability.
  • tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
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