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10-letter words containing k, r, a, d

  • chalkboard — A chalkboard is a dark-coloured board that you can write on with chalk. Chalkboards are often used by teachers in the classroom.
  • check card — debit card.
  • chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
  • clarksdale — a city in NW Mississippi.
  • clock card — a card used by employees to register their time of arrival at, and time of departure from, their workplace
  • cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • codewalker — (programming, tool)   A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
  • corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
  • crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
  • crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
  • cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • crackheads — Plural form of crackhead.
  • cradlewalk — a garden walkway covered by arched trees
  • cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
  • crude tank — A crude tank is a large vessel for crude oil.
  • daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
  • dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
  • 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.
  • dark slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
  • 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.
  • darknesses — Plural form of darknesse.
  • deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
  • dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
  • deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
  • deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
  • deck crane — a deck-mounted crane used for loading and unloading cargo
  • deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
  • dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
  • demarketed — Simple past tense and past participle of demarket.
  • desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
  • dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
  • disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
  • disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
  • disk brake — A disk brake is a brake in which external friction pads press onto a disk, usually by the action of a caliper.
  • disk crank — a crank having the form of a disk with a crankpin mounted off-center.
  • disk crash — the failure of a disk storage system, usually resulting from the read-write head touching the moving disk surface and causing mechanical damage
  • ditto mark — Often, ditto marks. two small marks (″) indicating the repetition of something, usually placed beneath the thing repeated.
  • dive brake — a flap deployed from the wings or fuselage of an aircraft, as a dive bomber or sailplane, that increases drag to permit a relatively steep angle of descent without a dangerous buildup in speed.
  • diyarbakir — a city in SE Turkey in Asia, on the Tigris River.
  • dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
  • dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
  • down quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 0.005 to 0.015 GeV/c2, a negative charge that is 1⁄3 the charge of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
  • downmarket — Toward or relating to the cheaper or less prestigious sector of the market.
  • 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.
  • dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
  • dragonskin — The skin of a dragon, or leather made from it.
  • drake foot — a pad foot having the form of three connected lobes.
  • drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
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