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10-letter words containing d, i, e, t, r

  • detraining — to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
  • detriments — Plural form of detriment.
  • detritions — Plural form of detrition.
  • detrivores — Plural form of detrivore.
  • deuterides — Plural form of deuteride.
  • devil tree — jelutong (def 3).
  • deviltries — Plural form of deviltry.
  • dewatering — the act of removing water
  • dexterious — Misspelling of dextrous, alternative spelling to dexterous.
  • dexterwise — on or to the right hand side (of a heraldic shield)
  • dextrality — the state or quality of having the right side or its parts or members different from and, usually, more efficient than the left side or its parts or members; right-handedness.
  • dextrinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin.
  • dextrinize — (transitive) To convert (starch molecules) to dextrin.
  • dextrinoid — (mycology) Applied to a mushroom that turns reddish-brown upon application of Melzer's reagent.
  • diagometer — an instrument invented by Rousseau, formerly used to measure the electrical conductivity of substances
  • diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
  • diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
  • diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
  • dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
  • dielectric — a nonconducting substance; insulator.
  • diet drink — a type of drink, usually a version of an existing drink, that is marketed as being good for slimmers because it is low in calories
  • differents — Plural form of different.
  • diffracted — Simple past tense and past participle of diffract.
  • dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
  • 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.
  • dinitrogen — (chemistry) the normal nitrogen molecule having two atoms.
  • dinnertime — the period set aside for eating dinner.
  • 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.
  • direct dye — any of a number of dyes that can be applied without the use of a mordant. They are usually azo dyes applied to cotton or rayon from a liquid bath containing an electrolyte such as sodium sulphate
  • direct hit — If a place suffers a direct hit, a bomb, bullet, or other missile that has been aimed at it lands exactly in that place, rather than some distance away.
  • direct sum — a composition of two disjoint sets, as vector spaces, such that every element in the composition can be written uniquely as the sum of two elements, one from each of the given sets.
  • 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.
  • directions — the act or an instance of directing.
  • directives — Plural form of directive.
  • directness — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • directoire — noting or pertaining to the style of French furnishings and decoration of the mid-1790s, characterized by an increasing use of Greco-Roman forms along with an introduction, toward the end, of Egyptian motifs: usually includes the Consulate period.
  • directress — a woman who is a director.
  • directrice — a female director
  • diremption — a sharp division into two parts; disjunction; separation.
  • dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
  • dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
  • dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
  • dirty rice — a Cajun dish of rice cooked with herbs and often chicken livers.
  • disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
  • disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
  • discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
  • disconcert — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
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