10-letter words containing d, g
- delighting — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delimiting — to fix or mark the limits or boundaries of; demarcate: A ravine delimited the property on the north.
- delivering — Present participle of deliver.
- delta wing — a triangular sweptback aircraft wing
- deltiology — the collection and study of picture postcards
- demagogism — The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.
- demagogued — Simple past tense and past participle of demagogue.
- demagogues — Plural form of demagogue.
- demivierge — a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual activity but retains her virginity
- demogorgon — a mysterious and awesome god in ancient mythology, often represented as ruling in the underworld
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- demonising — Present participle of demonise.
- demonizing — Present participle of demonize.
- demonology — Demonology is a set of beliefs which says that a particular situation or group of people is evil or unacceptable.
- demounting — Present participle of demount.
- demurrages — Plural form of demurrage.
- denaturing — Present participle of denature.
- dendrogram — any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms
- dendrology — the branch of botany that is concerned with the natural history of trees and shrubs
- denegation — a denial, contradiction, or refusal
- denigrated — Simple past tense and past participle of denigrate.
- denigrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denigrate.
- denigrator — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- denotating — Present participle of denotate.
- denouncing — Present participle of denounce.
- densifying — to impregnate (wood) with additives under heat and pressure in order to achieve greater density and hardness.
- denudating — Present participle of denudate.
- deontology — the branch of ethics dealing with duty, moral obligation, and moral commitment
- depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- depositing — Present participle of deposit.
- depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- deputising — to appoint as deputy.
- deregister — to remove (oneself, a car, etc) from a register
- deregulate — To deregulate something means to remove controls and regulations from it.
- deridingly — In a deriding way; mockingly.
- 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.)
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- 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.
- 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.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- designated — (of a truth value) corresponding to truth in a two-valued logic, or having one of the analogous values in a many-valued logic
- designates — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.