10-letter words containing a, n, t, e, p
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- department — A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.
- dependants — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- dispersant — something that disperses.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- east point — a city in N Georgia, near Atlanta.
- el capitan — a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m (3600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m (7564 ft)
- elaeoptene — eleoptene
- emancipate — Set free, esp. from legal, social, or political restrictions.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- emplastron — a plaster containing a balm or medication
- en passant — in passing: in chess, said of capturing a pawn that has made an initial move of two squares to its fourth rank, bypassing the square where an enemy pawn on its own fifth rank could capture it. The capture is made as if the captured pawn had moved one square instead of two
- en rapport — in sympathy, harmony, or accord
- encampment — A place with temporary accommodations consisting of huts or tents, typically for troops or nomads.
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- enraptured — Simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.
- enraptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enrapture.
- entrapment — The state of being entrapped.
- entrapping — Present participle of entrap.
- enwrapment — the action of enwrapping
- epaulement — a construction to protect troops from attack
- epicanthic — Denoting a fold of skin from the upper eyelid covering the inner angle of the eye, typical in many peoples of eastern Asia and found as a congenital abnormality elsewhere.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- epicentral — Of or pertaining to an epicentre.
- epinasties — Plural form of epinasty.
- epiretinal — (anatomy) Over or covering the retina.
- episcopant — a bishop
- episternal — Of or pertaining to the episternum.
- epitaphian — Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph.
- eruptional — relating to volcanic eruption
- escapement — A mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum.
- escarpment — A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
- etanercept — A drug that treats autoimmune diseases by interfering with the TNF receptor (part of the immune system).
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
- euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
- exaptation — (biology) The use of a biological structure or function for a purpose other than that for which it initially evolved.
- exoplanets — Plural form of exoplanet.
- expectance — Anticipation, hope.
- expectancy — The state of thinking or hoping that something, especially something pleasant, will happen or be the case.
- expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
- face-plant — to fall onto one's face, esp when skiing or snowboarding