10-letter words containing e, d, u, c
- cursedness — The state or quality of being cursed.
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cussedness — cursed.
- customised — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customized — modified according to a customer's individual requirements
- cut a deal — to come to an arrangement; make a deal
- damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- de quincey — Thomas. 1785–1859, English critic and essayist, noted particularly for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- 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.
- debauching — Present participle of debauch.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceitfull — Archaic form of deceitful.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- deciduitis — inflammation of the decidua.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- declutched — Simple past tense and past participle of declutch.
- decompound — (of a compound leaf) having leaflets consisting of several distinct parts
- decorously — characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, 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
- decoy duck — a duck, or an image of one, used to lure other ducks into a trap or within shooting range
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- decurrency — the action of flowing downwards
- decussated — Simple past tense and past participle of decussate.
- deducement — an assumption or deduction
- deductable — Alternative spelling of deductibletrue; that which can be deducted.
- 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.
- deductions — Plural form of deduction.
- deep focus — the focusing of a filmed scene so as to make near and distant objects equally clear.
- defunction — the act of dying; death
- defunctive — of or relating to the dead; funereal.
- deliquesce — (esp of certain salts) to dissolve gradually in water absorbed from the air
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- denouncers — Plural form of denouncer.
- denouncing — Present participle of denounce.
- denunciate — to condemn; denounce
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- descendeur — a shaped metal piece through which the rope can be fed: used to control the rate of descent in abseiling
- destructed — serving or designed to destroy: a destruct mechanism on a missile.
- destructor — a furnace or incinerator for the disposal of refuse, esp one that uses the resulting heat to generate power
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- diazeuctic — (of a tone) separating two tetrachords