10-letter words containing a, p, t, e
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disparates — unlike things or people
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- dispersant — something that disperses.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- dissipated — indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
- dissipater — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- dissipates — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- e-passport — a passport with an embedded microchip carrying information about the holder
- east islip — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- east point — a city in N Georgia, near Atlanta.
- eave spout — waterspout (def 1).
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- ecliptical — Astronomy. the great circle formed by the intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere; the apparent annual path of the sun in the heavens. an analogous great circle on a terrestrial globe.
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- ecphractic — having the property of removing obstructions
- ectoprocta — the phylum Bryozoa, especially as distinguished from the phylum Entoprocta by a body plan having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- 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
- elliptical — (of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand.
- 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.
- emmetropia — The condition of perfect vision, where images are correctly brought to a focus on the retina.
- empathetic — Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic.
- empathised — Simple past tense and past participle of empathise.