10-letter words containing da
- intertidal — of or relating to the littoral region that is above the low-water mark and below the high-water mark.
- intimidate — to make timid; fill with fear.
- intramodal — Within a mode.
- inundating — Present participle of inundate.
- inundation — to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge.
- invalidate — to render invalid; discredit.
- iridaceous — belonging to the Iridaceae family of plants.
- jacarandas — Plural form of jacaranda.
- jazz-dance — to perform jazz dance.
- jordan arc — simple arc.
- judas tree — a purple-flowered Eurasian tree, Cercis siliquastrum, of the legume family, supposed to be the kind upon which Judas hanged himself.
- julian day — a serial number equal to the number of days elapsed since January 1, 4713 b.c., proposed by Joseph Scaliger in 1582 and used in astronomical calculations: January 1, 1965, at noon, Greenwich Civil Time, was Julian Day 2,438,762.0. Abbreviation: J.D.
- kariba dam — dam on the Zambezi River, on the Zambian-Zimbabwean border: 420 ft (128 m) high: it has created a lake (Kariba Lake), 2,000 sq mi (5,180 sq km)
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- lacedaemon — Sparta.
- lackadaisy — alas
- lah-di-dah — affected; pretentious; foppish: a la-di-da manner.
- lake garda — a lake in N Italy: the largest lake in the country. Area: 370 sq km (143 sq miles)
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- lambdoidal — Lambdoid.
- lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- land dayak — a member of any of several Dayak tribes of Sarawak and southwestern Borneo. Compare Iban.
- land-damne — to make life unbearable for someone
- landammann — the chairman of the governing council in any of several Swiss cantons
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- lapidarian — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- larvacidal — Alternative spelling of larvicidal.
- larvicidal — an agent for killing larvae.
- latter-day — of a later or following period: latter-day pioneers.
- laudations — Plural form of laudation.
- laurdalite — a type of pale pink or grey syenite
- lemon soda — a sweet fizzy drink that tastes of lemon
- lev landau — Lev Davidovich [lyef duh-vye-duh-vyich] /ˈlyɛf dʌˈvyɛ də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1908–68, Russian scientist: Nobel Prize in Physics 1962.
- line dance — a kind of partnerless dance in which the dancers stand side by side in a line or lines and perform, in unison, a series of set, often complex, steps to various kinds of popular music
- line-dance — to participate in a line dance.
- lipidaemia — Alternative form of lipidemia.
- liquidated — Simple past tense and past participle of liquidate.
- liquidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liquidate.
- liquidator — a person who liquidates assets, especially one authorized to do so by a court of law.
- lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
- loma linda — a town in SW California.
- long-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having more than 15 years to run before redemption