10-letter words containing d, c, s
- dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
- dress coat — tail coat.
- dress code — a set of rules specifying the garb or type of clothing to be worn by a group or by people under specific circumstances: a military dress code; The restaurant's dress code requires men to wear jackets and ties at dinner.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- drumsticks — Plural form of drumstick.
- 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).
- dsp56k-gcc — Motorola's port of gcc version 1.37.1 to the Motorola DSP56000.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- dual-stack — (networking) A term used to describe a network node running both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks (or possibly others) at the same time. Such a machine can act as a protocol converter between the two networks. A node without dual-stack support can relay traffic in a protocol it does not support natively by use of tunnelling.
- 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's ass — DA.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckboards — Plural form of duckboard.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- dumbstruck — temporarily deprived of the power of speech, as by surprise or confusion; dumbfounded.
- duodecimos — Plural form of duodecimo.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- dust cloud — a large cloud of dust that hangs in the air
- 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
- dutch rush — scouring rush.
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- dynamicist — a person who investigates and researches dynamics
- dysarthric — Afflicted with, or pertaining to, dysarthria.
- dyschromia — Abnormal alteration of the color of the skin or nails.
- dyscontrol — The inability to control one's behavior.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysfluency — disfluency.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dysplastic — Exhibiting dysplasia.
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- dysthymiac — a person who is affected with dysthymia
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- economised — (UK) Simple past tense and past participle of economise.
- educations — Plural form of education.