10-letter words containing a, d, e, s
- detestable — If you say that someone or something is detestable, you mean you dislike them very much.
- detestably — In a detestable manner.
- detonators — Plural form of detonator.
- detracters — Plural form of detracter.
- detractors — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- deus ramos — João de [zhwoun duh] /ʒwãʊ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1830–96, Portuguese poet.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- devaluates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devaluate.
- devastated — If you are devastated by something, you are very shocked and upset by it.
- devastates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devastate.
- devastator — to lay waste; render desolate: The invaders devastated the city. Synonyms: destroy, sack, despoil, raze, ruin, level. Antonyms: create, erect, develop.
- devastavit — the waste or mismanagement, whether wilful or by neglect, of a deceased person's estate by the executor of his or her will or another trustee of the estate
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- dextranase — an enzyme which breaks down dextran, and is therefore useful for, among other things, preventing tooth decay
- dextrinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin.
- di stéfano — Alfredo (ɑlˈfredo). 1926–2014, Argentinian-born football player, who played for Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and Real Madrid
- diaconates — Plural form of diaconate.
- diagenesis — the sum of the physical, chemical, and biological changes that take place in sediments as they become consolidated into rocks, including compaction and cementation, but excluding weathering and metamorphic changes
- diakinesis — the final stage of the prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosomes start to separate after crossing over
- dialectics — the study of reasoning or of argumentative methodology
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diapedesis — the passage of blood cells through the unruptured wall of a blood vessel into the surrounding tissues
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- diaskeuast — a person who revises, edits, or interpolates
- diastases' — Medicine/Medical. the separation of normally joined parts, as in the dislocation of bones, without fracture.
- diastemata — Plural form of diastema.
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- dickensian — of Charles Dickens or his works
- didanosine — 2',3'-dideoxyinosine, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor effective against HIV.
- dieticians — Plural form of dietician.
- dietitians — Plural form of dietitian.
- digestable — (obsolete, or, nonstandard) alt form digestible.
- digitalise — Medicine/Medical. to treat (a person) with a regimen of digitalis.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- disaffects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disaffect.
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- disanimate — to deprive (a person or thing) of vigour or spirit
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disappears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disappear.
- disapplied — Simple past tense and past participle of disapply.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.