10-letter words containing d, i, r, e, c
- deciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decipherer — A person who deciphers.
- deck chair — A deck chair is a simple chair with a folding frame, and a piece of canvas as the seat and back. Deck chairs are usually used on the beach, on a ship, or in the yard.
- deckchairs — Plural form of deckchair.
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decolorize — to take the color out of, as by bleaching
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.
- decrassify — to make (something) less crass
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- decreation — Destruction.
- decreolize — to modify (a creole language) in the direction of a standard form of the language on which most of the vocabulary of the creole is based.
- decrepitly — In a decrepit way.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- demilancer — A soldier who carries a demilance.
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- dentifrice — any substance, esp paste or powder, for use in cleaning the teeth
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- deracemize — (chemistry) To convert a racemic mixture into one or other of the enantiomers.
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- derestrict — to render or leave free from restriction, esp a road from speed limits
- 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.
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- detracting — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichloride — a compound in which two atoms of chlorine are combined with another atom or group
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dickeybird — dickey1 (def 4).
- 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
- dielectric — a nonconducting substance; insulator.
- difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- differency — difference