10-letter words containing d, o, a
- covenanted — an agreement, usually formal, between two or more persons to do or not do something specified.
- cover band — a band that makes or performs cover versions of songs
- coveralled — wearing coveralls
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- cream soda — a carbonated soft drink flavoured with vanilla
- crinoidean — of or relating to the Crinoidea, an order of echinoderms
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- cross-fade — to fade in (one sound or picture source) as another is being faded out
- crossandra — any shrub of the free-flowering mostly African genus Crossandra, grown in greenhouses for their large yellow, lilac, or orange flowers: family Acanthaceae
- crossbands — Plural form of crossband.
- crossfader — (music) A device consisting of two volume controls which control separate records, allowing the DJ to change the source of the sound between the records.
- crossroads — A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross each other.
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crown land — (in the United Kingdom) land belonging to the Crown
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- custodians — Plural form of custodian.
- cycloidian — of or pertaining to a cycloid
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- d'annunzio — Gabriele (ɡaˈbrjɛːle). 1863–1938, Italian poet, dramatist, novelist, national hero, and Fascist. His works include the poems in Alcione (1904) and the drama La Figlia di Iorio (1904)
- d'oliviera — Basil (Lewis). 1931–2011, South African-born cricketer who played for England. The South African government's refusal to admit him to the country as part of the England touring party in 1968 led to South Africa being banned from international cricket
- daemonical — Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
- daffodilly — a daffodil
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- dairywoman — a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- daminozide — a plant-growth retardant, C 6 H 12 N 2 O 3 , used commercially on apples.
- damnations — Plural form of damnation.
- damoiselle — a damsel
- damp-proof — to protect against the incursion of damp by adding a dampcourse or by coating with a moisture-resistant preparation
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- damson jam — jam made from the fruit of the damson tree
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dancefloor — Alternative form of dance floor.
- dandelions — Plural form of dandelion.
- dandy roll — a light roller used in the manufacture of certain papers to produce watermarks
- danish oil — a furniture oil, based on synthetic resins, that gives a soft luster.
- dantrolene — a toxic orange powder, C 14 H 10 N 4 O 5 , used to control muscle spasms, as in the treatment of local trauma, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other neurological disorders.
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- dartboards — Plural form of dartboard.
- dashboards — Plural form of dashboard.
- data glove — (hardware, virtual reality) An input device for virtual reality in the form of a glove which measures the movements of the wearer's fingers and transmits them to the computer. Sophisticated data gloves also measure movement of the wrist and elbow. A data glove may also contain control buttons or act as an output device, e.g. vibrating under control of the computer. The user usually sees a virtual image of the data glove and can point or grip and push objects. Examples are Fifth Dimension Technologies (5DT)'s 5th Glove, and Virtual Technologies' CyberGlove. A cheaper alternative is InWorld VR's CyberWand.
- data model — (database) The product of the database design process which aims to identify and organize the required data logically and physically. A data model says what information is to be contained in a database, how the information will be used, and how the items in the database will be related to each other. For example, a data model might specify that a customer is represented by a customer name and credit card number and a product as a product code and price, and that there is a one-to-many relation between a customer and a product. It can be difficult to change a database layout once code has been written and data inserted. A well thought-out data model reduces the need for such changes. Data modelling enhances application maintainability and future systems may re-use parts of existing models, which should lower development costs. A data modelling language is a mathematical formalism with a notation for describing data structures and a set of operations used to manipulate and validate that data. One of the most widely used methods for developing data models is the entity-relationship model. The relational model is the most widely used type of data model. Another example is NIAM.
- data point — a single fact or piece of information; a datum: Other data points, such as crime statistics, are available from the state government.