10-letter words containing d, e, c, l, a
- cucullated — hooded; hood-shaped
- cul-de-sac — A cul-de-sac is a short road which is closed off at one end.
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- cut a deal — to come to an arrangement; make a deal
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- d particle — D meson.
- daemonical — Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
- dalliances — A casual romantic or sexual relationship.
- dance hall — Dance halls were large rooms or buildings where people used to pay to go and dance, usually in the evening.
- dancefloor — Alternative form of dance floor.
- deadlocked — If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.
- deallocate — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- death cell — a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- decadelong — lasting for a decade: After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decathlete — a participant in a decathlon
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
- decennials — Plural form of decennial.
- decennoval — relating to nineteen
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- decisional — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- declarable — that can be or must be declared for taxation
- declarants — Plural form of declarant.
- declarator — an action seeking to have some right, status, etc, judicially ascertained
- declaredly — known to be; officially
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- declinable — that can be declined; having case inflections
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decollated — Simple past tense and past participle of decollate.
- decollates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decollate.
- decollator — (computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper.
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decolorate — to change or fade in colour