10-letter words containing d, o, a
- dognapping — Kidnapping or stealing of a dog owned by someone else.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- dolcelatte — A mild, slightly sweet form of gorgonzola cheese.
- dollar day — a sale day on which retail merchandise is reduced to a dollar or very low price.
- dollar gap — the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.
- dollarbird — a common roller, Eurystomus orientalis, of Asia and Australia, having on its wings a silvery spot the size of a dollar.
- dollarfish — butterfish.
- dollarless — without dollars; having no money
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dollarspot — a turf disease caused by the fungus Sclerotinia or related genera, characterized by small, brown to straw-colored, round patches of dead grass that gradually spread and coalesce.
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- domiciliar — a canon of a minor order.
- dominantly — ruling, governing, or controlling; having or exerting authority or influence: dominant in the chain of command.
- dominating — Have a commanding influence on; exercise control over.
- domination — an act or instance of dominating.
- dominative — dominating; controlling.
- dominators — Plural form of dominator.
- dominatrix — a woman who plays the dominant role in a sado-masochistic sexual relationship or encounter.
- dominicale — a veil formerly worn by women during divine service.
- donatistic — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
- donor card — a signed and witnessed card, meant to be carried in a wallet, purse, etc., specifying a person's wish to offer body organs or parts for transplantation or scientific use in case of death.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doom-laden — conveying a sense of disaster and tragedy
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.
- doomsaying — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
- door chain — a short chain with a removable slide fitting that can be attached between the inside of a door and the doorjamb to prevent the door from being opened more than a few inches without the chain being removed.
- doorframes — Plural form of doorframe.
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- dopexamine — A \u03b21- and \u03b22-adrenergic receptor agonist.
- dorsal fin — the fin or finlike integumentary expansion generally developed on the back of aquatic vertebrates.
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- dorsigrade — (of animals such as certain armadillos) walking on the backs of the toes
- dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
- dos passos — John (Roderigo) [ro-dree-goh] /rɒˈdri goʊ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1970, U.S. novelist.
- dot matrix — a method of forming characters and graphics, used by CRTs and other screens, some printers (dot-matrix printers) and some plotters, by creating the desired pattern using dots from a dense matrix.
- dot-matrix — using matrix dots
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double day — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- doug lenat — (person) One of the world's leading computer scientists specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently (1999) head of the Cyc Project at MCC, and President of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. See also microLenat.
- doughfaced — over-persuadable
- doulocracy — Government by slaves.
- dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.