9-letter words containing s, a, d, o
- dissonant — disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
- dissonate — (music) To be dissonant.
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- dockyards — Plural form of dockyard.
- docu-soap — a television documentary series in which the lives of the people filmed are presented as entertainment or drama
- docusoaps — Plural form of docusoap.
- dog's age — quite a long time: I haven't seen you in a dog's age!
- dog's-ear — dog-ear.
- dogaressa — the wife of a doge
- dogmatics — the study of the arrangement and statement of religious doctrines, especially of the doctrines received in and taught by the Christian church.
- dogmatise — to make dogmatic assertions; speak or write dogmatically.
- dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
- dogmatist — a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
- dominants — Plural form of dominant.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.
- donations — Plural form of donation.
- donatives — Plural form of donative.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
- doorcases — Plural form of doorcase.
- doorjambs — Plural form of doorjamb.
- doornails — Plural form of doornail.
- doorstead — the structure of a doorway.
- dopeheads — Plural form of dopehead.
- dos-a-dos — do-si-do.
- dovetails — Plural form of dovetail.
- down east — New England.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downfalls — Plural form of downfall.
- downloads — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- downstage — at or toward the front of the stage.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- downstate — the southern part of a U.S. state.
- downwards — Also, downwards. from a higher to a lower place or condition.
- drag shoe — a type of braking device on a vehicle
- drag show — a performance by drag artists
- dragomans — Plural form of dragoman.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- dragonism — a strict and domineering manner
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- drawworks — A drawworks is a drum for reeling the drill string in and out.
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- drop pass — (in hockey and soccer) a pass in which a player in control of the ball or puck simply leaves it to be picked up by a trailing teammate and continues past it to draw off the defense.
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.