10-letter words containing c, d, m
- decompress — to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure
- decrements — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrement.
- decremeter — an instrument for measuring the damping of an electromagnetic wave train.
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- deducement — an assumption or deduction
- 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.
- defacement — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defenceman — a defender in ice hockey and lacrosse
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- demarcated — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- demarcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demarcate.
- demarcator — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- demicanton — either of the two parts of certain Swiss cantons
- demilancer — A soldier who carries a demilance.
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- demoniacal — of, relating to, or like a demon; demonic: demoniac laughter.
- deracemize — (chemistry) To convert a racemic mixture into one or other of the enantiomers.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichotomic — division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
- dichromacy — The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dichromism — the state of being dichromic
- dicoumarin — any compound formed with two bonded coumarin molecules
- dicoumarol — a substance obtained naturally from sweet clover or produced synthetically as a drug, used as an anticoagulant
- dictyosome — a Golgi body, esp in a plant cell
- dilemmatic — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- direct sum — a composition of two disjoint sets, as vector spaces, such that every element in the composition can be written uniquely as the sum of two elements, one from each of the given sets.
- discectomy — Surgical removal of the whole or a part of an intervertebral disc.
- disclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclaim.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- discomania — Enthusiasm for disco music.
- discomfits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discomfit.
- discomfort — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discommend — to express disapproval of; belittle; disparage. The diners discommended the wine.
- discommode — to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- disconfirm — to prove to be invalid.
- diseconomy — a lack of economy.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- ditch-moss — elodea.
- dochmiacal — of or relating to dochmiac verse
- docimastic — of or relating to docimasy