10-letter words containing d, r, e, a, n
- reindicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- reinstated — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- rejoneador — a bullfighter who rides horseback during a fight and spears the bull with lances
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- restrained — characterized by restraint: The actor gave a restrained performance.
- retardance — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- retardment — the act of retarding or state of being retarded.
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- ride again — to return to a former activity or scene of activity
- ring dance — round dance.
- ringleader — a person who leads others, especially in opposition to authority, law, etc.: a ringleader of revolutionary activities.
- rio grande — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
- road agent — (formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.
- road sense — the ability to be a safe driver or pedestrian
- 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)
- roberdsman — a robber
- roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- run ragged — to cause to be exhausted, as by constant pressure or harassment
- run scared — 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.
- rural dean — a cleric ranking just below an archdeacon, in charge of an archdeaconry.
- sacredness — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- salamander — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
- sallenders — an eruption on the hind leg of a horse, on the inside of a hock.
- sand perch — squirrelfish.
- sand tiger — any of several sharks of the family Odontaspididae, especially Odontaspis taurus, inhabiting shallow waters on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, having sharp, jagged teeth and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- sand viper — hognose snake.
- sandbagger — a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- sandbender — [IBM] A person involved with silicon lithography and the physical design of integrated circuits. Compare ironmonger, polygon pusher.
- sanderling — a common, small sandpiper, Calidris alba, inhabiting sandy beaches.
- 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.
- sandpapery — of or suggesting the grating sound of sandpaper rubbing against wood or the rough texture of sandpaper.
- sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
- sandsucker — the flatfish Platessa limandoides
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sarcodines — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scanderbeg — (George Castriota) 1403?–68, Albanian chief and revolutionary leader.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- screenland — filmdom.
- searedness — the state of being seared or unfeeling
- serenading — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- shagreened — made, covered with, or resembling shagreen
- shetlander — a native or inhabitant of Shetland