10-letter words containing rr
- de la warr — Baron, title of Thomas West, known as Lord Delaware. 1577–1618, English administrator in America; first governor of Virginia (1610)
- decurrency — the action of flowing downwards
- deferrable — capable of being deferred or postponed: a deferrable project.
- demurrages — Plural form of demurrage.
- derricking — Machinery. a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom.
- derring-do — Derring-do is the quality of being bold, often in a rather showy or foolish way.
- derringers — Plural form of derringer.
- deterrable — able to be deterred
- deterrence — Deterrence is the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
- deterrents — Plural form of deterrent.
- dewberries — Plural form of dewberry.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- disbarring — Present participle of disbar.
- dogberries — Plural form of dogberry.
- durrenmatt — Friedrich [freed-rik;; German free-drikh] /ˈfrid rɪk;; German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1921–90, Swiss dramatist and novelist.
- dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
- echeverria — Esteban [es-te-vahn] /ɛsˈtɛ vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1805–51, Argentine poet.
- ecowarrior — Alternative spelling of eco-warrior.
- elderberry — The bluish-black or red berry of the elder, used especially for making jelly or wine.
- en arrière — behind
- enarration — a detailed narrative
- engarrison — to set up as a garrison
- errand boy — boy who carries messages, go-between
- erraticism — the action or tendency to be erratic
- ferredoxin — any of a group of red-brown proteins containing iron and sulfur and acting as an electron carrier during photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, or oxidation-reduction reactions.
- ferret out — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- ferroalloy — an alloy of iron with some element other than carbon, used to introduce the element in the manufacture of steel.
- ferrofluid — A fluid containing a magnetic suspension.
- ferrograms — plural of Ferrogram
- ferroniere — jewel, on a chain, worn on the forehead
- ferrotypes — Plural form of ferrotype.
- ferruginol — (organic compound) A diterpene of the abietane chemical class that has been isolated from the needles of the redwood Sequoia sempervirens.
- ferry port — a town or place alongside navigable water with facilities for the loading and unloading of ferries
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- fingerroot — A plant related to ginger, Boesenbergia rotunda, with finger-like roots used as a spice.
- finisterre — Cape, a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of Spain.
- flos ferri — a variety of aragonite that is deposited from hot springs in the form of a white branching mass
- flurriedly — a light, brief shower of snow.
- fourragere — an ornament of cord worn on the shoulder.
- furry dice — two oversized dice covered with fake fur and hung in a car as a decoration
- garrisoned — a body of troops stationed in a fortified place.
- gate array — Computers, Electronics. logic array.
- gingerroot — the rhizome of the ginger plant.
- gonorrheal — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with gonorrhoea.
- gonorrhoea — a contagious, purulent inflammation of the urethra or the vagina, caused by the gonococcus.
- gooseberry — the edible, acid, globular, sometimes spiny fruit of certain prickly shrubs belonging to the genus Ribes, of the saxifrage family, especially R. uva-crispa (or R. grossularia).
- guerrillas — Plural form of guerrilla.