10-letter words containing n, o, a, d
- rain cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- rain-cloud — a cloud or a mass of clouds that yields rain.
- rained off — cancelled or postponed on account of rain
- randomness — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- re-adjourn — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- red salmon — sockeye salmon.
- redondilla — a Spanish verse form in which each stanza consists of four lines, each with eight syllables, and a rhyme scheme abba.
- reed organ — a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.
- rejoneador — a bullfighter who rides horseback during a fight and spears the bull with lances
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals
- richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
- rio grande — a city in NE Puerto Rico.
- ritardando — becoming gradually slower
- road agent — (formerly) a highwayman, especially along stagecoach routes in the western U.S.
- road sense — the ability to be a safe driver or pedestrian
- road train — a convoy of motor vehicles.
- road-train — a convoy of motor vehicles.
- roadmaking — road building
- roadrunner — either of two large terrestrial cuckoos of the genus Geococcyx of arid regions of the western U.S., Mexico, and Central America, especially G. californianus (greater roadrunner)
- roberdsman — a robber
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
- ropedancer — a person who walks across or performs acrobatics upon a rope stretched at some height above the floor or ground.
- round arch — an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.
- round clam — quahog.
- round hand — a style of handwriting in which the letters are round, full, and clearly separated.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- roundtable — a number of persons gathered together for conference, discussion of some subject, etc., and often seated at a round table.
- rowlandson — Thomas, 1756–1827, English caricaturist.
- run around — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- salvadoran — of El Salvador or its people or culture
- sanctioned — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sand colic — a form of colic caused by the ingestion of sand or eating sand-contaminated feeds and subsequent collection of sand in the gastrointestinal tract
- sandalfoot — (of women's hosiery) having no darker or thicker reinforced areas at the toe or heel, so as to be suitable for wear with sandal-type shoes.
- sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
- sandgroper — a nickname for a Western Australian
- sandgrouse — any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young.
- sandlotter — a youngster who plays baseball in a sandlot.
- sandroller — a North American fresh-water fish, Percopsis transmontana, related to the troutperch but having a deeper, more compressed body.
- sandy hook — a peninsula in E New Jersey, at the entrance to lower New York Bay. 6 miles (10 km) long.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
- sans doute — without doubt; certainly.
- sappanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.