10-letter words containing a, i, s
- desireable — Archaic form of desirable.
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desolating — Present participle of desolate.
- desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- dessalines — Jean-Jacques (ʒɑ̃ ʒɑk). ?1758–1806, emperor of Haiti (1804–06) after driving out the French; assassinated
- dessiatina — A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
- dessiatine — a Russian unit of area equal to approximately 2.7 acres or 10 800 square metres
- dessicated — Misspelling of desiccated.
- dessyatine — a Russian measure of land, equivalent to 2.7 acres
- destratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- devastavit — the waste or mismanagement, whether wilful or by neglect, of a deceased person's estate by the executor of his or her will or another trustee of the estate
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- dextrinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin.
- di stéfano — Alfredo (ɑlˈfredo). 1926–2014, Argentinian-born football player, who played for Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and Real Madrid
- diacaustic — (of a caustic curve or surface) formed by refracted light rays
- diaconates — Plural form of diaconate.
- diacoustic — relating to refracted sounds
- diacritics — Plural form of diacritic.
- diadromous — of or possessing a leaf venation in the shape of a fan
- diagenesis — the sum of the physical, chemical, and biological changes that take place in sediments as they become consolidated into rocks, including compaction and cementation, but excluding weathering and metamorphic changes
- diagnosing — Present participle of diagnose.
- diagnostic — Diagnostic equipment, methods, or systems are used for discovering what is wrong with people who are ill or with things that do not work properly.
- diakinesis — the final stage of the prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosomes start to separate after crossing over
- dialectics — the study of reasoning or of argumentative methodology
- dialogists — Plural form of dialogist.
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diapedesis — the passage of blood cells through the unruptured wall of a blood vessel into the surrounding tissues
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- diaschisis — a disturbance or loss of function in one part of the brain due to a localized injury in another part.
- diaskeuast — a person who revises, edits, or interpolates
- diastalsis — a downward wave of contraction occurring in the intestine during digestion
- diastases' — Medicine/Medical. the separation of normally joined parts, as in the dislocation of bones, without fracture.
- diastemata — Plural form of diastema.
- 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
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- dickensian — of Charles Dickens or his works