10-letter words containing k, r, a, d
- draw poker — a variety of poker in which a player is dealt five cards and, after an initial bet, may discard usually up to three of these cards and receive replacements from the dealer.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drawn work — ornamental work done by drawing threads from a fabric, the remaining portions usually being formed into lacelike patterns by needlework.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- dreikanter — a pebble or boulder having three faces formed by the action of windblown sand.
- dressmaker — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drug-taker — someone who takes illegal drugs
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- drunk dial — a phone call made by someone who is intoxicated.
- drunk tank — a large jail cell where persons arrested for drunkenness are kept, usually overnight.
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- feedbacker — One who provides feedback.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- firedrakes — Plural form of firedrake.
- first dark — twilight.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded
- grand duke — the sovereign of a territory called a grand duchy, ranking next below a king.
- grand turk — an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands of the West Indies. 7 miles (11 km) long.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.
- head clerk — a supervisor; manager
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- jerkinhead — a roof having a hipped end truncating a gable.
- kariba dam — dam on the Zambezi River, on the Zambian-Zimbabwean border: 420 ft (128 m) high: it has created a lake (Kariba Lake), 2,000 sq mi (5,180 sq km)
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.
- keyboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of keyboard.
- keyboarder — One who keyboards; a typist.
- khidmatgar — (in India) a waiter.
- khidmutgar — a male servant, esp one who serves at table
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
- kiddie car — a toy vehicle for a small child, having three wheels and pushed with the feet.
- kidnappers — Plural form of kidnapper.