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10-letter words containing d, i, a, p, e

  • crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
  • crispbread — Crispbreads are thin dry biscuits made from wheat or rye. They are often eaten instead of bread by people who want to lose weight.
  • cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
  • cyclopedia — encyclopedia
  • cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
  • d particle — D meson.
  • dauphiness — dauphine.
  • de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
  • deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
  • dead point — dead center
  • dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
  • deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
  • decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
  • deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
  • deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
  • delipidate — To remove the lipids from.
  • deoppilate — to remove obstructions (from)
  • depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
  • depeditate — /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with "decapitate"] Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders. Such letters are said to have been depeditated.
  • depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
  • depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
  • depolarize — to undergo or cause to undergo a loss of polarity or polarization
  • depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
  • depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
  • deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
  • depurating — Present participle of depurate.
  • depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
  • depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
  • 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.
  • despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
  • despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
  • despawning — Present participle of despawn.
  • 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.
  • despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
  • despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
  • diapedesis — the passage of blood cells through the unruptured wall of a blood vessel into the surrounding tissues
  • diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
  • diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
  • diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
  • dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
  • didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
  • dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
  • dipetalous — bipetalous.
  • diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
  • diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
  • diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
  • diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
  • diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
  • dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
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