10-letter words containing c, e, d
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- dry fresco — fresco secco.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- du cerceau — Androuet [ahn-droo-e] /ɑ̃ druˈɛ/ (Show IPA), Androuet du Cerceau.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- duckfooted — afflicted with splayfoot.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dude ranch — a ranch operated primarily as a vacation resort.
- dulce gulf — Izabal, Lake.
- duodecagon — dodecagon.
- duodecimal — pertaining to twelfths or to the number 12.
- duodecimos — Plural form of duodecimo.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- e. f. codd — (person) The inventor of the relational data model of databases.
- ecardinate — (of a mollusc or the shell of a mollusc) having no hinges
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- economised — (UK) Simple past tense and past participle of economise.
- economized — Simple past tense and past participle of economize.
- ectodermal — Of or pertaining to the ectoderm.
- ecuadorean — a republic in NW South America. 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito.
- ecuadorian — person from Ecuador
- eddication — (UK, dated) eye dialect of education.
- edificator — (rare) One who or that which edifies; an edifier.
- edit trace — (in electronic publishing) a record of editorial changes, additions, and deletions that can be displayed on a screen or printed out with edited copy.
- educatable — capable of being educated.
- educations — Plural form of education.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- edulcorate — to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.