10-letter words containing a, l, s, c
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decisional — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- declarants — Plural form of declarant.
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- decollates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decollate.
- deescalate — To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
- defalcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defalcate.
- delegacies — Plural form of delegacy.
- delicacies — something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like: Caviar is a great delicacy.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- 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.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- dialectics — the study of reasoning or of argumentative methodology
- didascalic — of or relating to instruction or teaching
- diplacusis — a difference in hearing by the two ears so that one sound is heard as two.
- disclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclaim.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- discoursal — of or relating to discourse
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disilicate — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound containing two silicate anions.
- dislocated — Simple past tense and past participle of dislocate.
- dislocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dislocate.
- displacing — Present participle of displace.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- disyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to two syllables.
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- downscaled — Simple past tense and past participle of downscale.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- dysplastic — Exhibiting dysplasia.
- ecclesiast — A member of the Athenian Ecclesia.
- eclaircise — (transitive) To make clear; to explain.
- egoistical — Caring about oneself rather than others.
- ejaculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ejaculate.
- elasticate — To add or wrap an elastic around something.
- elasticise — (British) To make with elastic, by attaching elastic bands, so it adjusts in size and remains snug. Usually done to clothing.
- elasticity — The ability of an object or material to resume its normal shape after being stretched or compressed; stretchiness.
- elasticize — (US) To make with elastic, by attaching elastic bands, so it adjust in size and remains snug. Usually done to clothing.
- elegancies — Plural form of elegancy.
- elucidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elucidate.
- emacs lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used to implement the higher layers of the Free Software Foundation's editor, GNU Emacs. Sometimes abbreviated to "elisp". An enormous number of Emacs Lisp packages have been written including modes for editing many programming languages and interfaces to many Unix programs.