10-letter words containing a, d, p, t, e
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- deep water — having, requiring, or operating in deep water: deepwater shipping; deepwater drilling for oil.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- delipidate — To remove the lipids from.
- deoppilate — to remove obstructions (from)
- depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- department — A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- depeditate — /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with "decapitate"] Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders. Such letters are said to have been depeditated.
- dependants — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- depletable — to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- deportable — liable to deportation
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- deprecated — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprecate.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- depredated — to plunder or lay waste to; prey upon; pillage; ravage.
- depredates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depredate.
- depredator — A person or thing that makes depredations, especially a predatory animal.
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- desert pea — an Australian trailing leguminous plant, Clianthus formosus, with scarlet flowers
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- 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.
- disparates — unlike things or people
- 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.