10-letter words containing c, u, s, e
- discounsel — to advise (a person) against a specific act
- discounted — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- discounter — a person who discounts.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discoursed — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- discourser — One who discourses; a narrator or speaker.
- discourses — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- discussive — (medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.
- discutient — capable of dissipating diseased matter
- disfluency — Pathology. impairment of the ability to produce smooth, fluent speech.
- do justice — present, treat fairly
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
- douchiness — (slang, derogatory) The quality of being douchey or douchy; objectionableness.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- 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)
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- duodecimos — Plural form of duodecimo.
- 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 rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- ecotourism — tourism to places having unspoiled natural resources, with minimal impact on the environment being a primary concern.
- ecotourist — A participant in ecotourism.
- ectogenous — growing outside the body of the host, as certain bacteria and other parasites.
- eczematous — an inflammatory condition of the skin attended with itching and the exudation of serous matter.
- educations — Plural form of education.
- effluences — Plural form of effluence.
- ejaculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ejaculate.
- elocutions — Plural form of elocution.
- elucidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elucidate.
- emasculate — Make (a person, idea, or piece of legislation) weaker or less effective.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- encaustics — Plural form of encaustic.
- enclosures — Plural form of enclosure.
- encounters — Plural form of encounter.
- encourages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encourage.
- encrusting — Present participle of encrust.
- endurances — Plural form of endurance.
- enschedule — to place in a schedule
- enucleates — Plural form of enucleate.
- enunciates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enunciate.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.