10-letter words containing a, g, d, e
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- dede agach — former name of Alexandroupolis.
- dedicating — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- deer grass — meadow beauty.
- defaulting — guilty of a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation
- defecating — Present participle of defecate.
- defilading — Present participle of defilade.
- deflagrate — to burn or cause to burn with great heat and light
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- degaussing — Present participle of degauss.
- degeneracy — If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people as degeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
- degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
- degradable — (of waste products, packaging materials, etc) capable of being decomposed chemically or biologically
- degradedly — in a degraded fashion
- degree day — a day on which university degrees are conferred
- degree-day — one degree of departure, on a single day, of the daily mean temperature from a given standard temperature. Abbreviation: dd.
- dei gratia — by the grace of God
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- delegacies — Plural form of delegacy.
- delegalize — to revoke the statutory authorization of.
- delegating — Present participle of delegate.
- delegation — A delegation is a group of people who have been sent somewhere to have talks with other people on behalf of a larger group of people.
- delegators — Plural form of delegator.
- delegatory — of or relating to the delegation or assignment of authority, power, or responsibility.
- deleverage — to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital in an organization or (of an organization) to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- deligating — Present participle of deligate.
- deligation — the act of binding, especially with a ligature
- delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
- demagogism — The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.
- demagogued — Simple past tense and past participle of demagogue.
- demagogues — Plural form of demagogue.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- demurrages — Plural form of demurrage.
- denaturing — Present participle of denature.
- dendrogram — any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms
- denegation — a denial, contradiction, or refusal
- denigrated — Simple past tense and past participle of denigrate.
- 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.
- denotating — Present participle of denotate.
- denudating — Present participle of denudate.
- depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.