10-letter words containing a, p, t, e
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- d particle — D meson.
- date stamp — an adjustable rubber stamp for recording the date
- date-stamp — to stamp the date on, as with a date stamp: He date-stamped every letter received.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- dead point — dead center
- deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- deep water — having, requiring, or operating in deep water: deepwater shipping; deepwater drilling for oil.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- delipidate — To remove the lipids from.
- deoppilate — to remove obstructions (from)
- 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.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- depeditate — /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with "decapitate"] Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders. Such letters are said to have been depeditated.
- dependants — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- depletable — to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- deportable — liable to deportation
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- deprecated — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprecate.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- depredated — to plunder or lay waste to; prey upon; pillage; ravage.
- depredates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depredate.
- depredator — A person or thing that makes depredations, especially a predatory animal.
- 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.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- 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.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- desert pea — an Australian trailing leguminous plant, Clianthus formosus, with scarlet flowers