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10-letter words containing a, c, d, e

  • deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
  • deactivate — If someone deactivates an explosive device or an alarm, they make it harmless or impossible to operate.
  • dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
  • dead stock — farm equipment
  • dead-stick — designating a landing made by an aircraft or spacecraft without using power
  • deadlocked — If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.
  • deallocate — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
  • death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
  • death care — the products, services, and arrangements having to do with funerals and burials.
  • death cell — a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death
  • death code — A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer - registers, memory, flags - to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction. Death code isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the PDP-8 or the Data General Nova. Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the TI 990 series, where all registers are actually in RAM, and the instruction "store immediate 0" has the opcode 0. The program counter will immediately wrap around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of this instruction in startup code (which would be in ROM and therefore survive).
  • deathcamas — any of various plants (genus Zigadenus) of the lily family, with grasslike basal leaves and clusters of greenish or white flowers: often poisonous to sheep
  • deathmatch — (in wrestling) a match in which many of the normal rules do not apply, typically leading to a more violent contest.
  • deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
  • deathwatch — a vigil held beside a dying or dead person
  • debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
  • debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
  • debauching — Present participle of debauch.
  • debit card — A debit card is a bank card that you can use to pay for things. When you use it the money is taken out of your bank account immediately.
  • decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
  • decadelong — lasting for a decade: After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.
  • decadently — In a decadent manner.
  • decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
  • decagramme — ten grammes
  • decagynian — having ten pistils or female organs of reproduction and belonging to the order Decagynia
  • decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
  • decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
  • decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
  • decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
  • decameters — Plural form of decameter.
  • decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
  • decampment — The act of decamping.
  • decandrian — having or characterized by ten stamens or male organs in flowers
  • decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
  • decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
  • decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
  • decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
  • decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
  • decathexis — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
  • decathlete — a participant in a decathlon
  • decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
  • decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
  • decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
  • deceased's — no longer living; dead.
  • deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
  • decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
  • decennials — Plural form of decennial.
  • decennoval — relating to nineteen
  • deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
  • decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
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