10-letter words containing a, c, n, t
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- desiccants — Plural form of desiccant.
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- detracting — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- devocation — A calling off or away.
- diaconates — Plural form of diaconate.
- diagenetic — the physical and chemical changes occurring in sediments between the times of deposition and solidification.
- diagnostic — Diagnostic equipment, methods, or systems are used for discovering what is wrong with people who are ill or with things that do not work properly.
- dicationic — (chemistry) Having two missing electrons.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dictations — Plural form of dictation.
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- dieticians — Plural form of dietician.
- diocletian — (Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus) a.d. 245–316, Illyrian soldier: emperor of Rome 284–305.
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- discussant — a person who participates in a formal discussion or symposium and is responsible for a specific topic.
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- distancing — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- donatistic — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dracontine — Belonging to a dragon.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- dynamicist — a person who investigates and researches dynamics
- dynamicity — The condition of being dynamic.
- ecardinate — (of a mollusc or the shell of a mollusc) having no hinges
- echinulate — (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.
- ectocornea — the outer layer of the cornea.
- eddication — (UK, dated) eye dialect of education.
- educations — Plural form of education.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- effacement — to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories.
- effraction — a breaking into a house, store, etc., by force; forcible entry.
- el capitan — a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m (3600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m (7564 ft)
- elenctical — (logic) Alternative form of elenctic.
- emaciating — Present participle of emaciate.
- emaciation — The state of being abnormally thin or weak.
- emancipate — Set free, esp. from legal, social, or political restrictions.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- emittances — Plural form of emittance.
- enactments — Plural form of enactment.