10-letter words containing d, e, c, s, t
- dixiecrats — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- do justice — present, treat fairly
- docentship — privatdocent.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- doctorless — Without a doctor or doctors.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dress coat — tail coat.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- 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.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- educations — Plural form of education.
- electrodes — Plural form of electrode.
- elucidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elucidate.
- endocytose — (cytology) Of a cell, to ingest material by folding the plasma membrane inwards around it.
- eradicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eradicate.
- eroticised — Simple past tense and past participle of eroticise.
- exodontics — the branch of dental surgery concerned with the extraction of teeth
- fascinated — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- feedstocks — Plural form of feedstock.
- fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- forecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- fructoside — a glycoside that yields fructose upon hydrolysis.
- headstocks — Plural form of headstock.
- hedonistic — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- hemisected — Simple past tense and past participle of hemisect.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- idealistic — of or relating to idealism or idealists.
- indiscreet — not discreet; lacking prudence, good judgment, or circumspection: an indiscreet remark.
- indiscrete — not discrete; not divided into parts.
- inducteous — Rendered electropolar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.
- instructed — Simple past tense and past participle of instruct.
- intercedes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intercede.
- interdicts — Plural form of interdict.
- introduces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of introduce.
- intumesced — Simple past tense and past participle of intumesce.