10-letter words containing c, e, r, a, t
- 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
- 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
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- diffracted — Simple past tense and past participle of diffract.
- dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
- 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.
- 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.
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discreated — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- distracted — Obsolete. distracted.
- distracter — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dixiecrats — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dracontine — Belonging to a dragon.
- dress coat — tail coat.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- each other — Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two (The two candidates respected each other) and one another in reference to three or more (The three nations threaten one another), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more. The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.
- ebracteate — having no bracts.
- ecalcarate — having no spur or calcar.
- ecardinate — (of a mollusc or the shell of a mollusc) having no hinges
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- ecphractic — having the property of removing obstructions
- ectocornea — the outer layer of the cornea.
- ectodermal — Of or pertaining to the ectoderm.
- ectoprocta — the phylum Bryozoa, especially as distinguished from the phylum Entoprocta by a body plan having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles.
- ectromelia — Medicine/Medical. the congenital absence or imperfection of a limb or limbs.
- 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.
- edulcorant — tending to edulcorate
- edulcorate — to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing; purify.
- effraction — a breaking into a house, store, etc., by force; forcible entry.
- ejaculator — A person or thing that ejaculates.
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.