10-letter words containing e, b, i
- debit card — A debit card is a bank card that you can use to pay for things. When you use it the money is taken out of your bank account immediately.
- debit side — The debit side of an account is the left-hand side.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debonnaire — courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm: a debonair gentleman.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- 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
- debt issue — a fixed corporate obligation, as a bond or debenture.
- debt limit — (in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decembrist — a participant in the unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicolas I in Dec 1825
- deceptible — capable of being deceived
- deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
- declinable — that can be declined; having case inflections
- decoctible — capable of being decocted
- deductible — If a payment or expense is deductible, it can be deducted from another sum such as your income, for example, when calculating how much income tax you have to pay.
- defeasible — (of an estate or interest in land) capable of being defeated or rendered void
- defectible — having the ability to fail
- 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.
- defiberize — defibrate.
- delibation — a small taste of a liquid
- deliberate — If you do something that is deliberate, you planned or decided to do it beforehand, and so it happens on purpose rather than by chance.
- demand bid — a bid to which one's partner is obliged to respond.
- demob suit — a suit of civilian clothes issued to a demobilized soldier, esp at the end of World War II
- demobilise — to disband (troops, an army, etc.).
- demobilize — If a country or armed force demobilizes its troops, or if its troops demobilize, its troops are released from service and allowed to go home.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- derbyshire — a county of N central England: contains the Peak District and several resorts with mineral springs: the geographical and ceremonial county includes the city of Derby, which became an independent unitary authority in 1997. Administrative centre: Matlock. Pop (excluding Derby city): 743 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Derby city): 2551 sq km (985 sq miles)
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- desirables — Plural form of desirable.
- desireable — Archaic form of desirable.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
- detainable — to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- detectible — to discover or catch (a person) in the performance of some act: to detect someone cheating.
- deurbanize — to divest (a city or locality) of urban characteristics.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- dewberries — Plural form of dewberry.
- diabetical — relating to diabetes
- diabolized — Simple past tense and past participle of diabolize.
- dialyzable — to subject to dialysis; separate or procure by dialysis.
- dibromides — Plural form of dibromide.