10-letter words containing c, e, d
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- detractors — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- devocalize — devoice.
- devocation — A calling off or away.
- diabetical — relating to diabetes
- diaconates — Plural form of diaconate.
- diagenetic — the physical and chemical changes occurring in sediments between the times of deposition and solidification.
- dialectics — the study of reasoning or of argumentative methodology
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- diazeuctic — (of a tone) separating two tetrachords
- dichloride — a compound in which two atoms of chlorine are combined with another atom or group
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dick-heads — dick (def 3).
- dickcissel — a small North American bird (Spiza americana), the male of which has a yellow breast, a black patch on its throat, and a mainly grey head
- dickensian — of Charles Dickens or his works
- dickeybird — dickey1 (def 4).
- dicksucker — (vulgar slang) A person who fellates men.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dictyosome — a Golgi body, esp in a plant cell
- die brücke — a group of German Expressionist painters (1905–13), including Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In 1912 they exhibited with der Blaue Reiter
- dielectric — a nonconducting substance; insulator.
- dietetical — Dated form of dietetic.
- dieticians — Plural form of dietician.
- difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- differency — difference
- diffidence — the quality or state of being diffident.
- diffluence — the act of flowing off or away.
- diffracted — Simple past tense and past participle of diffract.
- digoneutic — producing offspring twice yearly
- dijudicate — to make a decision or judgment about a matter that is disputed by two parties
- dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
- dilemmatic — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- diligences — Plural form of diligence.
- dilucidate — to elucidate
- diocletian — (Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus) a.d. 245–316, Illyrian soldier: emperor of Rome 284–305.
- dip circle — an instrument for measuring dip, consisting of a dip needle with a vertical circular scale of angles
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- direct dye — any of a number of dyes that can be applied without the use of a mordant. They are usually azo dyes applied to cotton or rayon from a liquid bath containing an electrolyte such as sodium sulphate
- direct hit — If a place suffers a direct hit, a bomb, bullet, or other missile that has been aimed at it lands exactly in that place, rather than some distance away.
- 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.
- direct tax — a tax exacted directly from the persons who will bear the burden of it (without reimbursement to them at the expense of others), as a poll tax, a general property tax, or an income tax.
- directable — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- directions — the act or an instance of directing.
- directives — Plural form of directive.
- directness — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.