10-letter words containing d, e, n, r
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- derailment — A derailment is an accident in which a train comes off the track on which it is running.
- deridingly — In a deriding way; mockingly.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- derivement — (obsolete) That which is derived; deduction; inference.
- dermatogen — a meristem at the apex of stems and roots that gives rise to the epidermis
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
- derricking — Machinery. a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom.
- derring-do — Derring-do is the quality of being bold, often in a rather showy or foolish way.
- derringers — Plural form of derringer.
- descenders — Plural form of descender.
- descendeur — a shaped metal piece through which the rope can be fed: used to control the rate of descent in abseiling
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- desertions — Plural form of desertion.
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desirement — (nonstandard) something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- désorienté — having lost one's bearings; confused
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- detergency — cleansing power
- detergents — Plural form of detergent.
- determents — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- determined — If you are determined to do something, you have made a firm decision to do it and will not let anything stop you.
- determiner — In grammar, a determiner is a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate, for example, which thing you are referring to or whether you are referring to one thing or several. Common English determiners are 'a', 'the', 'some', 'this', and 'each'.
- determines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of determine.
- deterrence — Deterrence is the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
- deterrents — Plural form of deterrent.
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- detonators — Plural form of detonator.
- detracting — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- detraining — to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- detriments — Plural form of detriment.
- detritions — Plural form of detrition.
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- deurbanize — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- devanagari — a syllabic script in which Sanskrit, Hindi, and other modern languages of India are written
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- devourment — the act of devouring
- dewatering — the act of removing water
- dextranase — an enzyme which breaks down dextran, and is therefore useful for, among other things, preventing tooth decay