10-letter words containing d, e, u
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- deputising — to appoint as deputy.
- der fuhrer — Adolf [ad-olf,, ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), (Adolf Schicklgruber"der Führer") 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45.
- derailleur — a mechanism for changing gear on bicycles, consisting of a device that lifts the driving chain from one sprocket wheel to another of different size
- deregulate — To deregulate something means to remove controls and regulations from it.
- desaturase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of single to double bonds, especially in the production of essential fatty acids.
- desaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- descendeur — a shaped metal piece through which the rope can be fed: used to control the rate of descent in abseiling
- desiderium — a powerful desire or yearning, especially for something once had
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- desirously — With desire; eagerly.
- desk study — a preliminary investigation and report into something collating currently available relevant information
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- desludging — mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- despiteous — malicious; spiteful.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- desquamate — (esp of the skin in certain diseases) to peel or come off in scales
- destituted — without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.
- destitutes — without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.
- destructed — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destructor — a furnace or incinerator for the disposal of refuse, esp one that uses the resulting heat to generate power
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- deunionize — to eliminate labor unions from (a company, industry, etc.).
- deurbanize — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- deus ramos — João de [zhwoun duh] /ʒwãʊ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1830–96, Portuguese poet.
- deuterated — designating or of a substance, compound, or organism in which part or all of the normal hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium
- deuterides — Plural form of deuteride.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- devaluated — Simple past tense and past participle of devaluate.
- devaluates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devaluate.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.
- devourment — the act of devouring
- devoutness — devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic.
- dexterious — Misspelling of dextrous, alternative spelling to dexterous.
- dextrously — Alternative form of dexterously.
- dial gauge — measuring instrument
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaskeuast — a person who revises, edits, or interpolates
- diazeuctic — (of a tone) separating two tetrachords
- dicksucker — (vulgar slang) A person who fellates men.
- die brücke — a group of German Expressionist painters (1905–13), including Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In 1912 they exhibited with der Blaue Reiter
- dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
- diffluence — the act of flowing off or away.