10-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- depredator — A person or thing that makes depredations, especially a predatory animal.
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- desert pea — an Australian trailing leguminous plant, Clianthus formosus, with scarlet flowers
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- desperados — Plural form of desperado.
- diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disappears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disappear.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- dispairing — Present participle of dispair.
- disparaged — Simple past tense and past participle of disparage.
- disparager — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
- disparages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disparage.
- disparates — unlike things or people
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- disparting — Present participle of dispart.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- dispersals — Plural form of dispersal.
- dispersant — something that disperses.
- dispraised — Simple past tense and past participle of dispraise.
- dispraiser — One who blames.
- disruptant — That which disrupts.
- dissipater — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- 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.
- drag strip — a straight, paved area or course where drag races are held, as a section of road or airplane runway.