10-letter words containing a, d, r, e, s, t
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- desiderata — something wanted or needed.
- desiderate — to feel the lack of or need for; long for; miss
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- destratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- 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).
- devastator — to lay waste; render desolate: The invaders devastated the city. Synonyms: destroy, sack, despoil, raze, ruin, level. Antonyms: create, erect, develop.
- 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.
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discreated — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disenthral — disenthrall.
- disentrail — to remove the entrails from
- disentrain — to go or set down from a train
- disfeature — to mar the features of; disfigure.
- dishearted — Simple past tense and past participle of disheart.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- dismantler — One who dismantles.
- disnatured — deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural
- disparates — unlike things or people
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispersant — something that disperses.
- disrelated — lacking relation or connection; unrelated.
- dissertate — to discuss a subject fully and learnedly; discourse.
- dissipater — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- distracted — Obsolete. distracted.
- distracter — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- distrained — Simple past tense and past participle of distrain.
- distrainee — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- distrainer — Alternative form of distrainor.
- divemaster — a professional qualified to oversee scuba diving operations, as in salvage work or at a resort, and responsible for procedures and safety, monitoring the whereabouts of divers underwater or at the surface, and making rescues when necessary.
- 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.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- downstater — A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York.
- downstream — upstream
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- draftiness — The characteristic of being drafty.
- drakestone — a flat stone thrown across the surface of water so as to make it skim or skip before sinking
- dramatised — Simple past tense and past participle of dramatise.
- dramatises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dramatise, an alternative spelling of 'dramatize'.
- dramatizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dramatize.
- draw-sheet — a sheet that can be easily removed from underneath a patient in a bed