10-letter words containing a, r, i, d
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- decrassify — to make (something) less crass
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- decreation — Destruction.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- defoliator — An adult or larval insect that strips all the leaves from a tree or shrub.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- dei gratia — by the grace of God
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- deliberate — If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
- delineator — a tailor's pattern, adjustable for different sizes
- deliration — delirium; madness
- delsartian — of, relating to, or characteristic of François Delsarte or the Delsarte method.
- delta iron — an allotrope of iron that exists between 1400°C and the melting point of iron and has the same structure as alpha iron
- demilancer — A soldier who carries a demilance.
- demiquaver — a sixteenth note; semiquaver.
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- demoralise — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralize — If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up.
- denaturing — Present participle of denature.
- denaturize — denature.
- dendroidal — Dendroid; resembling a shrub or tree.
- denigrated — Simple past tense and past participle of denigrate.
- denigrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denigrate.
- denigrator — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- depolarize — to undergo or cause to undergo a loss of polarity or polarization
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- deracemize — (chemistry) To convert a racemic mixture into one or other of the enantiomers.
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- derailleur — a mechanism for changing gear on bicycles, consisting of a device that lifts the driving chain from one sprocket wheel to another of different size
- derailment — A derailment is an accident in which a train comes off the track on which it is running.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- derivative — A derivative is something which has been developed or obtained from something else.
- derivatize — to alter (a chemical compound) via a chemical reaction, so that it becomes a derivative
- dermatitis — Dermatitis is a medical condition which makes your skin red and painful.
- dermatosis — any skin disease
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.