10-letter words containing a, c, e, d, s
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- dessicated — Misspelling of desiccated.
- detracters — Plural form of detracter.
- detractors — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- diaconates — Plural form of diaconate.
- dialectics — the study of reasoning or of argumentative methodology
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- dickensian — of Charles Dickens or his works
- dieticians — Plural form of dietician.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- disaffects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disaffect.
- disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
- discharger — Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.
- discharges — Plural form of discharge.
- disclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclaim.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discreated — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disenchain — to set (a person) free from restraint
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disilicate — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound containing two silicate anions.
- disk space — a number of bytes on a disk for the storage of data
- dislocated — Simple past tense and past participle of dislocate.
- dislocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dislocate.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- dissociate — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- dissonance — inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony.
- distracted — Obsolete. distracted.
- distracter — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- dixiecrats — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- dodecanese — a group of 12 Greek islands in the Aegean, off the SW coast of Turkey: belonged to Italy 1911–45. 1035 sq. mi. (2680 sq. km).
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).