10-letter words containing d, e, s, c
- defervesce — to undergo defervescence.
- deflectors — Plural form of deflector.
- dehiscence — a splitting open, as of a pod or anther, along definite structural lines
- dejections — Plural form of dejection.
- delegacies — Plural form of delegacy.
- delicacies — something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like: Caviar is a great delicacy.
- deliquesce — (esp of certain salts) to dissolve gradually in water absorbed from the air
- demarcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demarcate.
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- denouncers — Plural form of denouncer.
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- deprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprecate.
- derestrict — to render or leave free from restriction, esp a road from speed limits
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- descendent — coming or going downwards; descending
- descenders — Plural form of descender.
- descendeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- descendeur — a shaped metal piece through which the rope can be fed: used to control the rate of descent in abseiling
- descending — When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it.
- descension — the action of descending; descent
- deschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of deschool.
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desecrater — One who desecrates.
- desecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desecrate.
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- deselected — Simple past tense and past participle of deselect.
- desiccants — Plural form of desiccant.
- desiccated — Desiccated things have lost all the moisture that was in them.
- desiccates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desiccate.
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- desipience — folly; silliness
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desistence — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- desk clerk — A desk clerk is someone who works at the main desk in a hotel.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- despective — Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.