10-letter words containing n, d, o
- dress down — of or for a dress or dresses.
- dress-down — pertaining to or being a policy that allows employees to dress less formally than usual: dress-down days during the summer.
- drill down — bore a hole
- dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
- dromomania — An irrational impulse to wander or travel without purpose.
- dronabinol — Synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol.
- droolingly — In a drooling manner or fashion.
- droop nose — Aeronautics. a downward-sloping, adjustable aircraft nose, which increases visibility for the pilot during takeoff and landing. an aircraft with this type of nose. an adjustable flap at the leading edge of an aircraft wing.
- droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- drop front — fall front.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- drop-front — designating a desk with a front panel fitted with hinges on its bottom edge so that it can be pivoted forward and down to form a surface for writing
- drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
- drownproof — to teach (a person) the technique of drownproofing.
- drowsiness — half-asleep; sleepy.
- drug baron — the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs
- drunkathon — a session in which excessive quantities of alcohol are consumed
- drying oil — any of a group of oily, organic liquids occurring naturally, as linseed, soybean, or dehydrated castor oil, or synthesized, that when applied as a thin coating absorb atmospheric oxygen, forming a tough, elastic layer.
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- dubitation — doubt.
- dumbfounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dumbfound.
- dumfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumfounder — To dumbfound; to confound.
- duodecagon — dodecagon.
- duodenitis — inflammation of the duodenum.
- duopsonies — Plural form of duopsony.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- durnovaria — the Latin name for a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)
- durovernum — the Latin name for a city in SE England, in E Kent: starting point for St Augustine's mission to England (597 ad); cathedral where St Thomas à Becket was martyred (1170); seat of the archbishop and primate of England; seat of the University of Kent (1965). Pop: 43 552 (2001)
- dutch bond — a brickwork bond in which the vertical joints of the stretchers in any course are in line with the centers of the first stretchers above and below.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- duty-bound — If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- 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.
- economised — (UK) Simple past tense and past participle of economise.
- economized — Simple past tense and past participle of economize.
- ecuadorean — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- ecuadorian — person from Ecuador
- eddication — (UK, dated) eye dialect of education.
- edentulous — lacking teeth; toothless.
- edmundston — a city in NW New Brunswick, in SE Canada, on the upper part of the St. John River.
- educations — Plural form of education.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- eicosanoid — (biochemistry) Any of a family of naturally-occurring substances derived from 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids; they include the prostaglandins, thromboxanes, leukotrienes and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids; they function as hormones.