10-letter words containing d, o, r, a, n
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
- sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scandaroon — a large variety of fancy pigeon having a long thin body and an elongated neck and head
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- short-hand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body
- sit around — be idle, lounge about
- slanderous — defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
- snapdragon — any plant belonging to the genus Antirrhinum, of the figwort family, especially A. majus, cultivated for its spikes of showy flowers, each having a corolla supposed to resemble the mouth of a dragon.
- snow board — a board serving as a snow guard.
- soda niter — a white or transparent mineral, sodium nitrate, NaNO 3 , used chiefly as a fertilizer and in the manufacture of sulfuric and nitric acids and potassium nitrate.
- sognafjord — a fjord in the Norwegian Sea in SW Norway: the longest in Norway. 126 miles (203 km) long and up to 4291 feet (1308 meters) deep.
- solar pond — a pool with a bottom layer of salt water and top layer of fresh water, designed to capture solar radiation as a source of energy for generating heat or electricity.
- solar wind — an emanation from the sun's corona consisting of a flow of charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, that interacts with the magnetic field of the earth and other planetary bodies.
- sordamente — (of a piece of music) to be played softly or gently
- soundboard — sounding board.
- soundtrack — the narrow band on one or both sides of a motion-picture film on which sound is recorded.
- squadronal — belonging or relating to a squadron or squadrons
- stand over — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stare down — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- subordinal — of, relating to, or ranked as a suborder.
- sword bean — a twining vine, Canavalia gladiata, of the legume family, found in the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, having large, showy, pealike flowers and reddish-brown seeds.
- sword cane — a cane or walking stick having a hollow shaft that serves as a sheath for a sword or dagger.
- synandrous — with united stamens
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
- the dragon — the constellation Draco
- to and fro — back-and-forth: to-and-fro motion.
- to-and-fro — back-and-forth: to-and-fro motion.
- togolander — a former German protectorate in W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: E part is now the Republic of Togo; W part, a British mandate 1922–46 and trusteeship 1946–57, is now part of Ghana.
- top-ranked — A top-ranked sports player or team is the most successful player or team in a particular sport.
- torpedoman — a petty officer or warrant officer responsible for the maintenance, use, and repair of underwater weapons and equipment.
- track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- trade down — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- traduction — a transmission or communication
- transcoder — a technology, such as a software package, used to transfer data from one format to another
- tremolando — (of a piece of music) to be played with tremulous effect
- trunk road — A trunk road is a major road that has been specially built for travelling long distances. A trunk road is not as wide or as fast as a motorway.
- turnaround — the total time consumed in the round trip of a ship, aircraft, vehicle, etc.
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- ultrasound — Physics. sound with a frequency greater than 20,000 Hz, approximately the upper limit of human hearing.
- unabsorbed — not absorbed or taken in