10-letter words containing d, o, r, a
- round clam — quahog.
- round hand — a style of handwriting in which the letters are round, full, and clearly separated.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- royal duke — a duke who is also a royal prince, being a member of the royal family
- royal road — an auspicious or easy way or means to achieve something: the royal road to success.
- ruddevator — a control surface functioning both as a rudder and as an elevator.
- run around — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- saccharoid — having a granular texture like that of loaf sugar.
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- sacred cow — an individual, organization, institution, etc., considered to be exempt from criticism or questioning.
- saddleroom — a room for storing saddlery
- saddlesore — feeling sore or stiff from horseback riding.
- salad fork — a small, broad fork, usually one of a set, for eating salad or dessert.
- salvadoran — of El Salvador or its people or culture
- 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.
- saw doctor — a sawmill specialist who sharpens and services saw blades
- scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
- scandaroon — a large variety of fancy pigeon having a long thin body and an elongated neck and head
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schoolward — towards or in the direction of school
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- scordatura — the tuning of a stringed instrument in other than the usual way to facilitate the playing of certain compositions.
- score card — sport: card for recording results
- score draw — A score draw is the result of a football match in which both teams score at least one goal, and they score the same number of goals.
- scoreboard — a large, usually rectangular board in a ballpark, sports arena, or the like, that shows the score of a contest and often other relevant facts and figures, as the count of balls and strikes on a baseball batter.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrapegood — a stingy person; a miser
- scrollhead — billethead.
- scrubboard — washboard (defs 1, 2).
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- sdrucciola — (of rhymes) triple
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- short head — a distance shorter than the length of a horse's head
- short-hand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- short-laid — hard-laid.
- shortboard — a type of surfboard that is shorter than standard
- shortbread — a butter cookie commonly made in thick, pie-shaped wheels or rolled and cut in fancy shapes.
- showerhead — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
- sideboards — a piece of furniture, as in a dining room, often with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding articles of table service.
- sideration — sudden paralysis of a part of the body