10-letter words containing d, y, e
- davy jones — the ocean's bottom, esp when regarded as the grave of those lost or buried at sea
- day letter — a telegram sent during the day at a slightly cheaper rate
- day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
- day sailer — a small sailboat without sleeping accommodations, suitable for short trips.
- day ticket — a ticket that is valid for one day
- day trader — On the stock market, day traders are traders who buy and sell particular securities on the same day.
- daydreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of daydream.
- daydreamer — a reverie indulged in while awake.
- de quincey — Thomas. 1785–1859, English critic and essayist, noted particularly for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)
- death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decagynian — having ten pistils or female organs of reproduction and belonging to the order Decagynia
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- decidingly — that settles a question or dispute or leads to a final decision; determining; decisive: the deciding vote; The weather will be the deciding factor as to whether we have the picnic or not.
- decisively — having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important: Your argument was the decisive one.
- declaredly — known to be; officially
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- decorously — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
- decoy duck — a duck, or an image of one, used to lure other ducks into a trap or within shooting range
- decrassify — to make (something) less crass
- decrepitly — In a decrepit way.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- decurrency — the action of flowing downwards
- dedicatory — of or as a dedication
- deemployed — to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people.
- deep fryer — a deep pan or pot with a basket, usually of mesh, inside, for deep-frying.
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- defeatedly — With an appearance or attitude of defeat.
- defensibly — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
- definately — Misspelling of definitely.
- definitely — You use definitely to emphasize that something is the case, or to emphasize the strength of your intention or opinion.
- defrayable — Capable of being defrayed.
- defrayment — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- 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.
- 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.
- dehumidify — to remove water from (something, esp the air)
- dehydrated — (of organisms) deprived of vital water or moisture
- dehydrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehydrate.