10-letter words containing d, r, e, g
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
- de rigueur — If you say that a possession or habit is de rigueur, you mean that it is fashionable and therefore necessary for anyone who wants to avoid being considered unfashionable.
- debriefing — A debriefing is a meeting where someone such as a soldier, diplomat, or astronaut is asked to give a report on an operation or task that they have just completed.
- debris bug — a bug of the family Cimicidae found where vegetable debris accumulates and feeding on small arthropods like springtails: related to the bedbugs
- decagramme — ten grammes
- decentring — to put out of center.
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- deenergize — To remove a source of energy from.
- deep green — a person, esp a politician, who is in favour of taking extreme measures to tackle environmentalist issues
- deer grass — meadow beauty.
- deflagrate — to burn or cause to burn with great heat and light
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- defreezing — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- defrosting — Present participle of defrost.
- degendered — to free from any association with or dependence on gender: to degenderize employment policies.
- degeneracy — If you refer to the behaviour of a group of people as degeneracy, you mean that you think it is shocking, immoral, or disgusting.
- degenerate — If you say that someone or something degenerates, you mean that they become worse in some way, for example weaker, lower in quality, or more dangerous.
- degenerous — (of a person) inferior to one's ancestors
- degradable — (of waste products, packaging materials, etc) capable of being decomposed chemically or biologically
- degradedly — in a degraded fashion
- degree day — a day on which university degrees are conferred
- degree-day — one degree of departure, on a single day, of the daily mean temperature from a given standard temperature. Abbreviation: dd.
- degression — a decrease by stages
- degressive — reducing by gradual amounts
- dei gratia — by the grace of God
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- delegators — Plural form of delegator.
- delegatory — of or relating to the delegation or assignment of authority, power, or responsibility.
- deleverage — to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital in an organization or (of an organization) to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- delighters — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delivering — Present participle of deliver.
- demivierge — a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual activity but retains her virginity
- demogorgon — a mysterious and awesome god in ancient mythology, often represented as ruling in the underworld
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- demurrages — Plural form of demurrage.
- denaturing — Present participle of denature.
- dendrogram — any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms
- dendrology — the branch of botany that is concerned with the natural history of trees and shrubs
- denigrated — Simple past tense and past participle of denigrate.
- denigrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denigrate.
- denigrator — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.