10-letter words containing e, r, d, o
- crossfader — (music) A device consisting of two volume controls which control separate records, allowing the DJ to change the source of the sound between the records.
- crossfield — (in sport) across the field of play
- crotcheted — short-tempered
- croustades — Plural form of croustade.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- curse word — a profane or obscene word, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
- d'oliviera — Basil (Lewis). 1931–2011, South African-born cricketer who played for England. The South African government's refusal to admit him to the country as part of the England touring party in 1968 led to South Africa being banned from international cricket
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dancefloor — Alternative form of dance floor.
- dantrolene — a toxic orange powder, C 14 H 10 N 4 O 5 , used to control muscle spasms, as in the treatment of local trauma, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other neurological disorders.
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- de-ionizer — a device which de-ionizes a solution
- deaconries — Plural form of deaconry.
- dead horse — something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
- deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debonnaire — courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm: a debonair gentleman.
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- declarator — an action seeking to have some right, status, etc, judicially ascertained
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decollator — (computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper.
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decolorate — to change or fade in colour
- decolorize — to take the color out of, as by bleaching
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- decomposer — any organism in a community, such as a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down dead tissue enabling the constituents to be recycled to the environment
- decompress — to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure
- decontract — (ambitransitive) To expand from a contracted state.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- decorators — Plural form of decorator.
- decorously — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.