10-letter words containing d, o, r, a
- real video — (video, compression) A lossy video compression format from Real Media.
- real world — the realm of practical or actual experience, as opposed to the abstract, theoretical, or idealized sphere of the classroom, laboratory, etc.: recent college graduates looking for jobs in the real world of rising unemployment.
- recordable — to set down in writing or the like, as for the purpose of preserving evidence.
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
- red salmon — sockeye salmon.
- redecorate — to furnish or adorn with something ornamental or becoming; embellish: to decorate walls with murals.
- redondilla — a Spanish verse form in which each stanza consists of four lines, each with eight syllables, and a rhyme scheme abba.
- reed organ — a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.
- rejoneador — a bullfighter who rides horseback during a fight and spears the bull with lances
- rekeyboard — to enter (information) again on a keyboard or other similar device
- remodulate — to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- reproached — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- retrograde — moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
- rhabdolith — a minute rodlike structure, believed by some to be algae, found at the bottom and the surface of the ocean, and which is composed of calcium carbonate, calcium or limestone
- rhabdomere — one of the many parts that makes up a rhabdom
- rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- rhodoplast — a plastid found in red algae, containing red pigment as well as chlorophyll
- rhomboidal — shaped almost like a diamond or rhomboid
- rhotacized — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- rio grande — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
- riot squad — a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
- ritardando — becoming gradually slower
- rix-dollar — any of various silver coins, as the Danish rigsdaler, the Dutch rijksdaalder, or the German reichsthaler, of about equal value.
- road agent — (formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.
- road apple — a piece of horse manure on or at the side of a road.
- road atlas — a book of maps showing roads, designed for drivers
- road metal — broken stone, cinders, etc., used for making roads.
- road movie — film in which story follows a journey
- road racer — a driver, cyclist or athlete who takes part in a road race
- road sense — the ability to be a safe driver or pedestrian
- road train — a convoy of motor vehicles.
- road-train — a convoy of motor vehicles.
- roadheader — a piece of tunnelling equipment with a conveyor and a cutter
- roadmaking — road building
- roadroller — a person who rolls roads.
- roadrunner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
- roadworthy — in suitable operating condition or meeting accepted standards for safe driving on the road: a roadworthy automobile.
- roberdsman — a robber
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
- roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
- roof guard — any device for preventing snow from sliding off a sloping roof.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- rose aphid — a dark green aphid, Macrosiphum rosae, that feeds on roses and related plants.
- round arch — an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.