10-letter words containing r, a, m
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- dream team — A dream team is the best possible group of people to be in a sports team or to do a particular job.
- dreamboats — Plural form of dreamboat.
- dreaminess — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- dreamworld — A fantastic or idealized view of life.
- dreariment — (obsolete) dreariness.
- drearisome — Very dreary.
- dressmaker — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drill team — a group trained, especially for exhibition purposes, in precision marching, the manual of arms, etc.
- dromomania — An irrational impulse to wander or travel without purpose.
- 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.
- drum major — the marching leader of a drum corps or a band.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drumbeater — a person who vigorously proclaims or publicizes the merits of a product, idea, movie, etc.; press agent.
- du maurier — Dame Daphne (Lady Browning) 1907–1989, English novelist.
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dura mater — the tough, fibrous membrane forming the outermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Also called dura. Compare arachnoid (def 6), pia mater.
- durrenmatt — Friedrich [freed-rik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfrid rɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- dwarf male — a male animal that is much smaller, and often internally simpler, than its female counterpart. Dwarf males are commonly carried by the female, as in species of angler fish
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- ear-minded — tending to perceive one's environment in terms of sound and to recall sounds more vividly than sights, smells, etc.
- earmarking — Present participle of earmark.
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthwomen — Plural form of earthwoman.
- earthworms — Plural form of earthworm.
- east timor — a small country in SE Asia, comprising part of the island of Timor: colonized by Portugal in the 19th century; declared independence in 1975 but immediately invaded by Indonesia; under UN administration from 1999 and an independent state from 2002. It is mountainous with a monsoon climate; subsistence agriculture is the main occupation. Languages: Portuguese, Tetun (a lingua franca), and Bahasa Indonesia. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: US dollar. Capital: Dili. Pop: 1 172 390 (2013 est). Area: 14 874 sq km (5743 sq miles)
- eastermost — (archaic) easternmost.
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- ectodermal — Of or pertaining to the ectoderm.
- ectromelia — Medicine/Medical. the congenital absence or imperfection of a limb or limbs.
- el mansûra — a city in NE Egypt: scene of a battle (1250) in which the Crusaders were defeated by the Mamelukes and Louis IX of France was captured; cotton-manufacturing centre. Pop: 423 000 (2005 est)
- elasmosaur — a very long-necked extinct marine reptile: a type of plesiosaur
- elastomers — Plural form of elastomer.
- elementary — Of or relating to the most rudimentary aspects of a subject.
- eliminator — One who, or that which, eliminates.
- emarginate — (botany, mycology) Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower before reaching the attachment point.
- embarassed — Misspelling of embarrassed.
- embargoing — Present participle of embargo.
- embarkment — Embarkation; the act of setting out.
- embassador — Archaic form of ambassador.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- emblazoner — Someone who emblazons.
- emblazonry — Something emblazoned; a heraldic pattern.