10-letter words containing d, i, c, t, a
- dilucidate — to elucidate
- diocletian — (Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus) a.d. 245–316, Illyrian soldier: emperor of Rome 284–305.
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- direct tax — a tax exacted directly from the persons who will bear the burden of it (without reimbursement to them at the expense of others), as a poll tax, a general property tax, or an income tax.
- directable — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt track — a track with an unsealed surface
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disaffects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disaffect.
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discordant — being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous: discordant opinions.
- discreated — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- discussant — a person who participates in a formal discussion or symposium and is responsible for a specific topic.
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- disilicate — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound containing two silicate anions.
- dislocated — Simple past tense and past participle of dislocate.
- dislocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dislocate.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- dissociate — to sever the association of (oneself); separate: He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
- distancing — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distracted — Obsolete. distracted.
- distracter — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- distractor — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- divaricate — to spread apart; branch; diverge.
- dixiecrats — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- docimastic — of or relating to docimasy
- dogmatical — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- donatistic — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dracontine — Belonging to a dragon.
- dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
- dramatical — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of drama or the theatre.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- dynamicist — a person who investigates and researches dynamics
- dynamicity — The condition of being dynamic.
- dysarthric — Afflicted with, or pertaining to, dysarthria.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysplastic — Exhibiting dysplasia.
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia