10-letter words containing c, a, p, e
- 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.
- cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
- d particle — D meson.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- 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.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- deep clean — an exceptionally intense cleaning process
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- deep space — any region of outer space beyond the system of the earth and moon
- dependance — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
- dependancy — the state of being dependent; dependence.
- deprecable — able to be deprecated
- 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.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- 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.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- 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.
- disk space — a number of bytes on a disk for the storage of data
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- 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.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- do penance — make amends for sth
- dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.