10-letter words containing d, a, c, p
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chip-based — (of electronic equipment or components) using or incorporating microchips
- cladophyll — a green, flattened branch arising from the axil of a leaf, with the shape and functions of a foliage leaf
- clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
- clamp-down — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.
- clappy-doo — a large black mussel
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
- coal depot — a place at which coal may be deposited, stored, etc
- coated pit — a clathrin-lined depression in the outer surface of a cell membrane, formed of receptors and their specific ligands, that becomes a coated vesicle upon endocytosis.
- codswallop — If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense.
- cold-patch — to apply a cold patch to.
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
- complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- cooperated — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- copycatted — Simple past tense and past participle of copycat.
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
- d particle — D meson.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- deep clean — an exceptionally intense cleaning process
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- deep space — any region of outer space beyond the system of the earth and moon