10-letter words containing c, e, d
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desecrater — One who desecrates.
- desecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desecrate.
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- deselected — Simple past tense and past participle of deselect.
- desiccants — Plural form of desiccant.
- desiccated — Desiccated things have lost all the moisture that was in them.
- desiccates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desiccate.
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- desipience — folly; silliness
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desistence — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- desk clerk — A desk clerk is someone who works at the main desk in a hotel.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- despective — Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
- 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.
- dessicated — Misspelling of desiccated.
- destocking — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- destructed — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destructor — a furnace or incinerator for the disposal of refuse, esp one that uses the resulting heat to generate power
- detachable — If a part of an object is detachable, it has been made so that it can be removed from the object.
- detachably — in a detachable fashion
- detachedly — in a detached fashion
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- detectable — Something that is detectable can be noticed or discovered.
- detectably — In a way that can be detected.
- detectible — to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act: to detect someone cheating.
- detections — Plural form of detection.
- detectives — Plural form of detective.
- detergency — cleansing power
- deterrence — Deterrence is the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
- dethatched — Simple past tense and past participle of dethatch.
- detoxicate — to rid (a patient) of a poison or its effects
- detracters — Plural form of detracter.
- detracting — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts