10-letter words containing a, d, r, i, t
- denigrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denigrate.
- denigrator — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- derailment — A derailment is an accident in which a train comes off the track on which it is running.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- derivative — A derivative is something which has been developed or obtained from something else.
- derivatize — to alter (a chemical compound) via a chemical reaction, so that it becomes a derivative
- dermatitis — Dermatitis is a medical condition which makes your skin red and painful.
- dermatosis — any skin disease
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- 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.
- destratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- detracting — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- detraining — to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- dewatering — the act of removing water
- dextrality — the state or quality of having the right side or its parts or members different from and, usually, more efficient than the left side or its parts or members; right-handedness.
- dextrinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin.
- diacritics — Plural form of diacritic.
- diagometer — an instrument invented by Rousseau, formerly used to measure the electrical conductivity of substances
- dial train — Horology. the part of a going train that drives the minute and hour hands.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- diatribist — a person who uses diatribes in his or her speeches or writing, etc
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictionary — (as modifier)
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- diffracted — Simple past tense and past participle of diffract.
- dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
- dilatorily — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- 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.
- direct tax — a tax exacted directly from the persons who will bear the burden of it (without reimbursement to them at the expense of others), as a poll tax, a general property tax, or an income tax.
- directable — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface