10-letter words containing d, m, i, n
- des moines — a city in S central Iowa: state capital. Pop: 196 093 (2003 est)
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- designment — designation, design
- desirement — (nonstandard) something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator
- destemming — to remove the stem from (a fruit or vegetable); stem.
- detail man — a salesman for a pharmaceutical firm who visits doctors, dentists, etc. in a certain district to promote new drugs
- detainment — to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- determined — If you are determined to do something, you have made a firm decision to do it and will not let anything stop you.
- determiner — In grammar, a determiner is a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate, for example, which thing you are referring to or whether you are referring to one thing or several. Common English determiners are 'a', 'the', 'some', 'this', and 'each'.
- determines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of determine.
- detriments — Plural form of detriment.
- diagraming — Present participle of diagram.
- diamantane — (chemistry) A diamondoid consisting of two face-fused cages.
- diamantina — an intermittent river in E Australia, flowing S to Lake Eyre. 560 miles (900 km) long.
- diamantine — of or resembling diamonds
- diamonding — Present participle of diamond.
- diamondize — (transitive) To set with diamonds; to adorn or enrich.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaz miron — Salvador [sahl-vah-th awr] /ˌsɑl vɑˈðɔr/ (Show IPA), 1853–1928, Mexican poet.
- diazoamino — denoting or of a diazo compound containing the group N:N·NH
- dicoumarin — any compound formed with two bonded coumarin molecules
- didynamous — (of plants) having four stamens arranged in two pairs of unequal length, as in the foxglove
- dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, especially such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920.
- dimensions — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- 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.
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- diminishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diminish.
- diminuendo — a gradual reduction of force or loudness.
- diminution — the act, fact, or process of diminishing; lessening; reduction.
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- dimplement — the state of being dimpled
- dinkum oil — the truth
- dinnertime — the period set aside for eating dinner.
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
- diremption — a sharp division into two parts; disjunction; separation.
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- disanimate — to deprive (a person or thing) of vigour or spirit
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- discomania — Enthusiasm for disco music.
- discommend — to express disapproval of; belittle; disparage. The diners discommended the wine.
- disconfirm — to prove to be invalid.
- diseconomy — a lack of economy.
- diseminate — Misspelling of disseminate.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- disharmony — lack of harmony; discord.
- disimagine — to shun from the imagination
- dismalness — The state or quality of being dismal.