10-letter words containing d, r, a, f
- dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.
- data frame — activation record
- deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
- decrassify — to make (something) less crass
- defalcator — A defaulter or embezzler.
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- defaulters — Plural form of defaulter.
- deferrable — capable of being deferred or postponed: a deferrable project.
- deflagrate — to burn or cause to burn with great heat and light
- defoliator — An adult or larval insect that strips all the leaves from a tree or shrub.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- deformable — to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure: In cases where the drug was taken during pregnancy, its effects deformed the infants.
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- defrayable — Capable of being defrayed.
- defrayment — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- destratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- diffracted — Simple past tense and past participle of diffract.
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disfeature — to mar the features of; disfigure.
- disulfiram — a cream-colored, water-insoluble solid, C 10 H 20 N 2 S 4 , used chiefly in the treatment of chronic alcoholism, producing highly unpleasant symptoms when alcohol is taken following its administration.
- dollarfish — butterfish.
- doorframes — Plural form of doorframe.
- dorsal fin — the fin or finlike integumentary expansion generally developed on the back of aquatic vertebrates.
- downdrafts — Plural form of downdraft.
- draft beer — beer drawn or available to be drawn from a cask or barrel.
- draft card — the card issued to men who registered for the draft
- draft mark — any of a series of figures or marks at the stem or stern of a vessel indicating the distance vertically from the lowermost part of the hull.
- draft mill — smokejack.
- draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
- draftiness — The characteristic of being drafty.
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- drainfield — an open area, the soil of which absorbs the contents of a septic tank.
- drake foot — a pad foot having the form of three connected lobes.
- dreadfully — in a dreadful way: The pain has increased dreadfully.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- drift lead — a lead indicating, by the angle its line makes with the perpendicular, the movement of a supposedly stationary ship or the movement of water past a stationary ship.
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- dwarf door — a door of approximately half normal height, as the lower half of a Dutch door.
- dwarf male — a male animal that is much smaller, and often internally simpler, than its female counterpart. Dwarf males are commonly carried by the female, as in species of angler fish
- dwarf star — any of the ordinary main sequence stars, as those of spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
- dwarfishly — In a dwarfish manner.
- edificator — (rare) One who or that which edifies; an edifier.
- fabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- face guard — a guard used to protect a player's face
- factfinder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factorized — Simple past tense and past participle of factorize.