10-letter words containing r, o, d, s, c
- discoverer — a person who discovers.
- discretion — the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice: It is entirely within my discretion whether I will go or stay.
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- discursion — an instance of discursive writing, speech, etc.; a wandering or logically unconnected statement.
- discursory — of or relating to discourse
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- disjunctor — a small body found in the spores of some fungi
- disorganic — Not organic; having no organization.
- distractor — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- doctorfish — a surgeonfish, especially Acanthurus chirurgus, of the West Indies, having a bluish body and black tail.
- doctorless — Without a doctor or doctors.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.
- dolichurus — a dactylic hexameter characterized by a redundant syllable at the end
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dress coat — tail coat.
- dress code — a set of rules specifying the garb or type of clothing to be worn by a group or by people under specific circumstances: a military dress code; The restaurant's dress code requires men to wear jackets and ties at dinner.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- 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
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- electrodes — Plural form of electrode.
- eroticised — Simple past tense and past participle of eroticise.
- fluoresced — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce.
- forecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- foreclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreclose.
- fructoside — a glycoside that yields fructose upon hydrolysis.
- gasconader — A great boaster; a blusterer.
- god's acre — a cemetery, especially one adjacent to a church; churchyard.
- handscroll — A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
- hardcovers — Plural form of hardcover.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.