10-letter words containing d, r, a, f, t
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- handcrafts — Plural form of handcraft.
- handicraft — manual skill.
- hard stuff — strongly addictive drugs.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- infuriated — to make furious; enrage.
- interfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of interface.
- lefthander — Alternative spelling of left-hander.
- leftwardly — leftwards
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- party food — food that is served at parties; snacks
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- perforated — perforated.
- refit yard — a yard where ships are made ready for use again by repairing, re-equipping, or resupplying
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- staffrider — a person who illegally rides on the outside of a suburban train
- stand firm — be resolute
- standfirst — an introductory paragraph in an article, printed in larger or bolder type or in capitals, that summarizes the article
- starfished — lying with arms and legs outstretched; spread-eagled
- strandflat — a shore platform found along the coasts of Greenland, Iceland and Norway which may have formed as the result of glacial erosion
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- swordcraft — skill in or the art of swordplay.
- tax refund — rebate on overpaid tax
- threadfish — any of several jacks of the genus Alectis, especially A. ciliaris, having the front rays of the dorsal and anal fins greatly elongated.
- time draft — a draft payable within a specified number of days after it is presented.
- to and fro — back-and-forth: to-and-fro motion.
- to-and-fro — back-and-forth: to-and-fro motion.
- trade fair — exhibition by a particular industry
- tradecraft — the skills learned from experience in a trade, often used to refer to the skills spies use to avoid being detected
- trafficked — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- triffidian — resembling a triffid
- underdraft — a tendency of a rolled piece to curve downward after passing through a stand, occurring when the upper roll is faster than the lower. Compare overdraft (def 7).
- unfactored — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- unfathered — having no father; fatherless.
- unfeatured — not featured
- unratified — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.