10-letter words containing a, g, e, d, l
- decadelong — lasting for a decade: After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- defaulting — guilty of a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation
- defilading — Present participle of defilade.
- deflagrate — to burn or cause to burn with great heat and light
- degradable — (of waste products, packaging materials, etc) capable of being decomposed chemically or biologically
- degradedly — in a degraded fashion
- 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
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- deregulate — To deregulate something means to remove controls and regulations from it.
- desolating — Present participle of desolate.
- detangling — Present participle of detangle.
- dial gauge — measuring instrument
- dialogized — Simple past tense and past participle of dialogize.
- digestable — (obsolete, or, nonstandard) alt form digestible.
- digitalise — Medicine/Medical. to treat (a person) with a regimen of digitalis.
- digitalize — Medicine/Medical. to treat (a person) with a regimen of digitalis.
- digladiate — to contend or fight
- divulgated — to make publicly known; publish.
- dodge ball — a circle game in which players throw an inflated ball at opponents within the circle who try to avoid being hit, and therefore eliminated, the winner being the one who remains unhit.
- dog paddle — a simple swimming stroke in which the body is kept nearly upright, the arms paddle, and the legs move up and down as in running
- dog-paddle — to swim or keep afloat by use of the dog paddle.
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- doug lenat — (person) One of the world's leading computer scientists specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently (1999) head of the Cyc Project at MCC, and President of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. See also microLenat.
- dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.
- dreadingly — With dread.
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- duffel bag — a large, cylindrical bag, especially of canvas, for carrying personal belongings, orginally used by military personnel.
- eagle-eyed — having keen vision.
- edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
- eglandular — having no glands
- embrangled — Simple past tense and past participle of embrangle.
- enfilading — Present participle of enfilade.
- enlargedly — in an enlarged manner
- escalading — Present participle of escalade.
- estrangled — Simple past tense and past participle of estrangle.
- everglades — Plural form of everglade.
- field goal — Football. a three-point goal made by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball between the opponent's goalposts above the crossbar.