10-letter words containing d, o, r, a
- depolarize — to undergo or cause to undergo a loss of polarity or polarization
- deportable — liable to deportation
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depredator — A person or thing that makes depredations, especially a predatory animal.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- dermatogen — a meristem at the apex of stems and roots that gives rise to the epidermis
- dermatomal — Anatomy. an area of skin that is supplied with the nerve fibers of a single, posterior, spinal root.
- dermatomes — Plural form of dermatome.
- dermatoses — Plural form of dermatosis.
- dermatosis — any skin disease
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- desperados — Plural form of desperado.
- detonators — Plural form of detonator.
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- detractors — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- deus ramos — João de [zhwoun duh] /ʒwãʊ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1830–96, Portuguese poet.
- devalorize — Devalue.
- devastator — to lay waste; render desolate: The invaders devastated the city. Synonyms: destroy, sack, despoil, raze, ruin, level. Antonyms: create, erect, develop.
- diachronic — of, relating to, or studying the development of a phenomenon through time; historical
- diadromous — of or possessing a leaf venation in the shape of a fan
- diagometer — an instrument invented by Rousseau, formerly used to measure the electrical conductivity of substances
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- diaz miron — Salvador [sahl-vah-th awr] /ˌsɑl vɑˈðɔr/ (Show IPA), 1853–1928, Mexican poet.
- diaz ordaz — Gustavo [goos-tah-vaw] /gusˈtɑ vɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–79, Mexican teacher, jurist, and public official: president 1964–70.
- dichromacy — The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dicoumarin — any compound formed with two bonded coumarin molecules
- dicoumarol — a substance obtained naturally from sweet clover or produced synthetically as a drug, used as an anticoagulant
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- dig around — If you dig around in a place or container, you search for something in every part of it.
- dilatorily — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- dinosauric — Of or pertaining to dinosaurs.
- disaccords — Plural form of disaccord.