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

  • chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • chip-based — (of electronic equipment or components) using or incorporating microchips
  • clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
  • cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
  • cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
  • coal depot — a place at which coal may be deposited, stored, etc
  • coated pit — a clathrin-lined depression in the outer surface of a cell membrane, formed of receptors and their specific ligands, that becomes a coated vesicle upon endocytosis.
  • compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
  • complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
  • cooperated — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
  • copycatted — Simple past tense and past participle of copycat.
  • copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
  • corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
  • cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
  • cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
  • crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
  • crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
  • crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
  • cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
  • cyclopedia — encyclopedia
  • cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
  • d particle — D meson.
  • dall sheep — a wild sheep (Ovis dalli) with white hair and long spiral horns, living in the mountains of NW North America
  • dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
  • dapperness — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
  • dasypaedal — (of the young of some species of birds after hatching) having a covering of down
  • date stamp — an adjustable rubber stamp for recording the date
  • date-stamp — to stamp the date on, as with a date stamp: He date-stamped every letter received.
  • dauphiness — dauphine.
  • davenports — Plural form of davenport.
  • dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
  • de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
  • deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
  • dead point — dead center
  • deadpanned — marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment; impassive or expressionless: deadpan humor.
  • deadpanner — a person who has a deliberately emotionless face
  • dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
  • deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
  • 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 trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
  • deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
  • decampment — The act of decamping.
  • decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
  • decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
  • deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
  • deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
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