10-letter words containing d, y, e, t
- destroyeth — Archaic third-person singular form of destroy.
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- detachably — in a detachable fashion
- detachedly — in a detached fashion
- detailedly — in a detailed manner
- detectably — In a way that can be detected.
- detergency — cleansing power
- detestably — In a detestable manner.
- detractory — (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- 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.
- dextrously — Alternative form of dexterously.
- dictyosome — a Golgi body, esp in a plant cell
- diethylene — (organic chemistry, in combination) Two ethylene groups in a molecule.
- digestedly — in a digested manner
- diligently — industriously
- dipeptidyl — (biochemistry) Of or pertaining to dipeptides.
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- 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
- dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
- dirty rice — a Cajun dish of rice cooked with herbs and often chicken livers.
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- discectomy — Surgical removal of the whole or a part of an intervertebral disc.
- discreetly — judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- discretely — apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts.
- dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- disquietly — In a disquiet manner.
- distillery — a place or establishment where distilling, especially the distilling of liquors, is done.
- dodge city — a city in SW Kansas, on the Arkansas River: important frontier town and railhead on the old Santa Fe route.
- dostoevsky — Fyodor Mikhailovich [fyoh-der mi-kahy-luh-vich;; Russian fyaw-duh r myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈfyoʊ dər mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈfyɔ dər myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1821–81, Russian novelist.
- dry offset — letterset.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- dyeability — Quality or degree of being dyeable.
- dyophysite — the presence of the divine and human natures in Jesus Christ
- dyothelete — a person who subscribes to the teaching that Christ had both a human and a divine will
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- eastwardly — having an eastward direction or situation.
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- endemicity — The quality of being endemic.
- endocytose — (cytology) Of a cell, to ingest material by folding the plasma membrane inwards around it.
- endophytes — Plural form of endophyte.
- endophytic — Of or relating to an endophyte.
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.