10-letter words containing r, a, d, c
- kickboards — Plural form of kickboard.
- kiddie car — a toy vehicle for a small child, having three wheels and pushed with the feet.
- kincardine — a former county in E Scotland.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- land force — an armed force serving on land
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- lardy cake — a rich sweet cake made of bread dough, lard, sugar, and dried fruit
- larvacidal — Alternative spelling of larvicidal.
- larvicidal — an agent for killing larvae.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- laser disc — video, audio format: optical disc
- lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
- lead track — a track connecting a railroad yard or facility with a main line or running track.
- leichhardt — Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈluːtvɪç). 1813–48, Australian explorer, born in Prussia. He disappeared during an attempt to cross Australia from East to West
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- lord acton — Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron) 1834–1902, English historian.
- lowercased — Printed or written in lowercase letters.
- lubricated — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- macdiarmid — Hugh (Christopher Murray Grieve) 1892–1978, Scottish poet.
- macrolides — Plural form of macrolide.
- macromedia — (company) A company supplying multimedia and interactive television services and digital arts software tools in the US and worldwide. They produce products for Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh including: Macromedia FreeHand, a tool for design and illustration; Macromedia Director, an animation and authoring tool for multimedia production; Authorware Professional, a multiplatform authoring tool for interactive learning; MacroModel, a 3D modelling tool for multimedia, graphics and product design; SoundEdit 16, a digital sound recording and editing system; Fontographer, a typeface editing programme; and Action!, a multimedia presentation application. Chief Executive Officer: Bud Colligan.
- macrotrend — A large-scale trend.
- macroworld — A world or reality on a larger scale, thus for example the social scale when discussing individual affairs, or the human scale when discussing particle physics.
- madagascar — an island republic in the Indian Ocean, about 240 miles (385 km) off the SE coast of Africa: formerly a French colony; gained independence 1960. 227,800 sq. mi. (590,000 sq. km). Capital: Antananarivo.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- man orchid — an orchid, Aceras anthropophorum, having greenish or reddish flowers in a loose spike, with a deeply lobed dark brown lip thought to resemble the silhouette of a man
- mandarinic — Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- mariticide — The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
- mastercard — a brand of credit or debit card
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matricidal — Relating to matricide, the killing of a mother.
- matricides — Plural form of matricide.
- mcpartland — Marian, 1918–2013, British jazz pianist and composer, in U.S. since 1946.
- medicaster — A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
- mediocracy — government or rule by a mediocre person or group.
- mercaptide — a metallic salt of a mercaptan.
- mesocardia — the double layer of splanchnic mesoderm supporting the embryonic heart.
- metricated — Simple past tense and past participle of metricate.
- microblade — bladelet.
- microfarad — a unit of capacitance, equal to one millionth of a farad. Symbol: μF, μf. Abbreviation: mf., mfd.
- microwaved — Simple past tense and past participle of microwave.
- micturated — Simple past tense and past participle of micturate.
- midamerica — Middle America (def 2).
- miracidium — the larva that hatches from the egg of a trematode worm or fluke.
- miscarried — Simple past tense and past participle of miscarry.