10-letter words containing t, o, a, d
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
- boat drill — practice in launching the lifeboats and taking off the passengers and crew of a ship
- body track — the tracks of a railroad yard used for switching or sorting cars.
- bollandist — any of the editors of the Acta Sanctorum.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- cacodylate — a salt of cacodylic acid.
- candy-coat — sugarcoat (def 2).
- cantonized — canton (def 7).
- carbolated — containing carbolic acid
- carbonated — Carbonated drinks are drinks that contain small bubbles of carbon dioxide.
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- carotenoid — any of a group of red or yellow pigments, including carotenes, found in plants and certain animal tissues
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- catch cold — to become ill with a cold
- catch-cord — a cord or wire located near a selvage, used to form a loop or deflect the filling yarn not intended to be woven permanently in with the regular selvage.
- catchwords — Plural form of catchword.
- category d — (of a prisoner) regarded as sufficiently trustworthy to be kept under open prison conditions
- catostomid — (zoology) Any member of the Catostomidae.
- cattle dog — a catalogue
- celadonite — a hydrous silicate of iron and potassium; an iron-rich soft mica.
- centroidal — of or relating to a centroid
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- cestoidean — one of the Cestoda, a class of tapeworm
- chadderton — a town in NW England, in Oldham unitary authority, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 33 001 (2001)
- chardonnet — (Louis Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (ilɛr bɛrniɡo), Comte de. 1839–1924, French chemist and industrialist who produced rayon, the first artificial fibre
- chloridate — to expose to or prepare with a chloride
- chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
- chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- cloth yard — a medieval unit of measure for cloth, fixed at 37 inches by Edward VI of England: also used as a length for longbow arrows
- cnidoblast — any of the cells of a coelenterate that contain nematocysts
- coadjacent — something that is adjacent to another thing in experience or thought
- coadjutant — cooperating
- coadjutors — Plural form of coadjutor.
- coadjuvant — Cooperating.
- coagulated — Subject to coagulation.
- coal depot — a place at which coal may be deposited, stored, etc
- coarctated — Simple past tense and past participle of coarctate.
- coastguard — A coastguard is an official who watches the sea near a coast in order to get help for sailors when they need it and to stop illegal activities.
- coastlands — Plural form of coastland.