10-letter words containing d, e, c, m
- decremeter — an instrument for measuring the damping of an electromagnetic wave train.
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- deducement — an assumption or deduction
- 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.
- defacement — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defenceman — a defender in ice hockey and lacrosse
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- demarcated — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- demarcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demarcate.
- demarcator — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- demicanton — either of the two parts of certain Swiss cantons
- demilancer — A soldier who carries a demilance.
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- demoniacal — of, relating to, or like a demon; demonic: demoniac laughter.
- deracemize — (chemistry) To convert a racemic mixture into one or other of the enantiomers.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictyosome — a Golgi body, esp in a plant cell
- dilemmatic — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- direct sum — a composition of two disjoint sets, as vector spaces, such that every element in the composition can be written uniquely as the sum of two elements, one from each of the given sets.
- discectomy — Surgical removal of the whole or a part of an intervertebral disc.
- disclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclaim.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- discommend — to express disapproval of; belittle; disparage. The diners discommended the wine.
- discommode — to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- diseconomy — a lack of economy.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- dockmackie — a North American shrub, Viburnum acerifolium, of the honeysuckle family, having long stemmed clusters of white flowers and ovoid, almost black berries.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documented — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- documenter — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
- dolcemente — softly; sweetly
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- dominicale — a veil formerly worn by women during divine service.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- dot-commer — a company doing business mostly or solely on the Internet.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
- duodecimal — pertaining to twelfths or to the number 12.
- duodecimos — Plural form of duodecimo.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- economised — (UK) Simple past tense and past participle of economise.