10-letter words containing k, r
- 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.
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- demarketed — Simple past tense and past participle of demarket.
- derricking — Machinery. a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom.
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- desertlike — a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: The Sahara is a vast sandy desert. Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- desk clerk — A desk clerk is someone who works at the main desk in a hotel.
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- dickeybird — dickey1 (def 4).
- dicksucker — (vulgar slang) A person who fellates men.
- die brücke — a group of German Expressionist painters (1905–13), including Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In 1912 they exhibited with der Blaue Reiter
- die-sinker — a person who engraves dies for stamping coins, medals, etc
- diet drink — a type of drink, usually a version of an existing drink, that is marketed as being good for slimmers because it is low in calories
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
- dirty look — face: resentful expression
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- 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.
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- 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
- disk drive — computing: hardware
- disk-drive — a device that, using an access mechanism under program control, enables data to be read from or written on a spinning magnetic disk, magnetic disk pack, floppy disk, or optical disk.
- 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.
- dockworker — a person employed on the docks of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- dog tucker — the meat of a sheep killed on a farm and used as dog food
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.
- donnybrook — an inordinately wild fight or contentious dispute; brawl; free-for-all.
- door check — a device, usually hydraulic or pneumatic, for controlling the closing of a door and preventing it from slamming.
- doorkeeper — a person who guards the entrance of a building.
- dory skiff — an open boat similar to but smaller than a dory.
- doukhobors — Dukhobors
- 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.
- downstroke — a downward stroke, as of a machine part, piston, or the like.