10-letter words containing e, d, g, c
- corndodger — a small cake of cornmeal, baked or fried hard
- corregidor — an island at the entrance to Manila Bay, in the Philippines: site of the defeat of American forces by the Japanese (1942) in World War II
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- corrugated — Corrugated metal or cardboard has been folded into a series of small parallel folds to make it stronger.
- cradlesong — a lullaby
- cudgelling — a short, thick stick used as a weapon; club.
- curmudgeon — If you call someone a curmudgeon, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- cynghanedd — a complex system of rhyme and alliteration used in Welsh verse
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decadelong — lasting for a decade: After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.
- decagramme — ten grammes
- decagynian — having ten pistils or female organs of reproduction and belonging to the order Decagynia
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- deceivings — Plural form of deceiving.
- decentring — to put out of center.
- 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.
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- declotting — a mass or lump.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- decoupling — the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- dede agach — former name of Alexandroupolis.
- dedicating — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- defecating — Present participle of defecate.
- deflecting — Present participle of deflect.
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- 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.
- delegacies — Plural form of delegacy.
- denouncing — Present participle of denounce.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- derricking — Machinery. a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom.
- descending — When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- destocking — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- detergency — cleansing power
- detracting — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- diagenetic — the physical and chemical changes occurring in sediments between the times of deposition and solidification.
- digoneutic — producing offspring twice yearly
- diligences — Plural form of diligence.
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- discerning — showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding: a discerning critic of French poetry.