10-letter words containing e, d, g
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- deer grass — meadow beauty.
- defaulting — guilty of a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation
- defecating — Present participle of defecate.
- defilading — Present participle of defilade.
- deflagrate — to burn or cause to burn with great heat and light
- deflecting — Present participle of deflect.
- 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.
- defuelling — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
- degaussing — Present participle of degauss.
- 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