10-letter words containing d, l, s
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- day sailer — a small sailboat without sleeping accommodations, suitable for short trips.
- day school — A day school is a school where the students go home every evening and do not live at the school. Compare boarding school.
- de lesseps — Vicomte Ferdinand Marie (fɛrdinɑ̃ mari). 1805–94, French diplomat: directed the construction of the Suez Canal (1859–69) and the unsuccessful first attempt to build the Panama Canal (1881–89)
- de-isolate — to remove from isolation.
- de-license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- deadliness — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- debilities — Plural form of debility.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- decennials — Plural form of decennial.
- deciliters — Plural form of deciliter.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decisional — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- decisively — having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important: Your argument was the decisive one.
- declarants — Plural form of declarant.
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- declension — the inflection of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives for case, number, and gender
- decollates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decollate.
- decolonise — to release from the status of a colony.
- decorously — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
- deescalate — To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
- defalcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defalcate.
- defaulters — Plural form of defaulter.
- defeasible — (of an estate or interest in land) capable of being defeated or rendered void
- defectless — a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection: a defect in an argument; a defect in a machine.
- defensible — An opinion, system, or action that is defensible is one that people can argue is right or good.
- defensibly — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- deflations — Plural form of deflation.
- deflectors — Plural form of deflector.
- defoliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defoliate.
- delay slot — delayed control-transfer
- delegacies — Plural form of delegacy.
- delegators — Plural form of delegator.
- delicacies — something delightful or pleasing, especially a choice food considered with regard to its rarity, costliness, or the like: Caviar is a great delicacy.
- delighters — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delimiters — Plural form of delimiter.
- delineates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delineate.
- deliquesce — (esp of certain salts) to dissolve gradually in water absorbed from the air
- deliverers — Plural form of deliverer.
- deliveries — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.