10-letter words containing e, d, r, i, o
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- disordered — lacking organization or in confusion; disarranged.
- disorderly — characterized by disorder; irregular; untidy; confused: a disorderly desk.
- disorients — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disorient.
- dispeopler — One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- dispersion — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
- dispersoid — the suspended particles in a dispersion.
- disprofess — to renounce the profession of
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- dissolvers — Plural form of dissolver.
- distortive — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- diversions — Plural form of diversion.
- dog-sitter — a person who looks after a dog while its owner is away
- dogberries — Plural form of dogberry.
- dogfighter — Person who competes in dogfighting.
- dogmatizer — One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- domineered — Simple past tense and past participle of domineer.
- door prize — a prize awarded at a dance, party, or the like, either by chance through a drawing or as a reward, as for having the best costume.
- dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
- dorsifixed — (botany) Said of anthers that are attached to the filament somewhere along their back.
- dorsigrade — (of animals such as certain armadillos) walking on the backs of the toes
- dosimeters — Plural form of dosimeter.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- down-river — Something that is moving down-river is moving towards the mouth of a river, from a point further up the river. Something that is down-river is towards the mouth of a river.
- downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
- downrigger — a fishing line used in trolling that is attached to a weighted cable in order to put lures or bait at a specific depth under a boat, usually near the floor.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dracontine — Belonging to a dragon.
- dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- drearihood — (obsolete) affliction; dreariness.
- drearisome — Very dreary.
- dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drolleries — Plural form of drollery.
- droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- drowsiness — half-asleep; sleepy.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- ecuadorian — person from Ecuador
- edificator — (rare) One who or that which edifies; an edifier.