10-letter words containing d, e, t, o, r
- deportment — Your deportment is the way you behave, especially the way you walk and move.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depositors — Plural form of depositor.
- depository — A depository is a place where objects can be stored safely.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depredator — A person or thing that makes depredations, especially a predatory animal.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- dermatogen — a meristem at the apex of stems and roots that gives rise to the epidermis
- dermatomal — Anatomy. an area of skin that is supplied with the nerve fibers of a single, posterior, spinal root.
- dermatomes — Plural form of dermatome.
- dermatoses — Plural form of dermatosis.
- dermatosis — any skin disease
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- dermotherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- desertions — Plural form of desertion.
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- désorienté — having lost one's bearings; confused
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- destroyers — Plural form of destroyer.
- destroyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of destroy.
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- destructor — a furnace or incinerator for the disposal of refuse, esp one that uses the resulting heat to generate power
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- detonators — Plural form of detonator.
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- detractors — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- detritions — Plural form of detrition.
- detrivores — Plural form of detrivore.
- devastator — to lay waste; render desolate: The invaders devastated the city. Synonyms: destroy, sack, despoil, raze, ruin, level. Antonyms: create, erect, develop.
- devourment — the act of devouring
- dexterious — Misspelling of dextrous, alternative spelling to dexterous.
- dextrinoid — (mycology) Applied to a mushroom that turns reddish-brown upon application of Melzer's reagent.
- dextrously — Alternative form of dexterously.
- diagometer — an instrument invented by Rousseau, formerly used to measure the electrical conductivity of substances
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dime store — five-and-ten (def 1).
- dimetrodon — an extinct carnivorous mammallike reptile, of the genus Dimetrodon, dominant in North America during the Permian Period, up to 10 feet (3.1 meter) long and usually bearing spinal sails.
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.