10-letter words containing e, l, d
- de la mare — Walter (John). 1873–1956, English poet and novelist, noted esp for his evocative verse for children. His works include the volumes of poetry The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) and Peacock Pie (1913) and the novel Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
- de la warr — Baron, title of Thomas West, known as Lord Delaware. 1577–1618, English administrator in America; first governor of Virginia (1610)
- de lesseps — Vicomte Ferdinand Marie (fɛrdinɑ̃ mari). 1805–94, French diplomat: directed the construction of the Suez Canal (1859–69) and the unsuccessful first attempt to build the Panama Canal (1881–89)
- de-isolate — to remove from isolation.
- de-license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- de-linking — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- dead metal — furniture (def 4).
- dead-metal — the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
- deadliness — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlining — Present participle of deadline.
- deadlocked — If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.
- deaf-blind — of or relating to a person who is both deaf and blind.
- deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- deallocate — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- death bell — a bell tolled to announce a death
- death blow — If you say that an event or action deals a death blow to something such as a plan or hope, or is a death blow to something, you mean that it puts an end to it.
- death cell — a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- death toll — The death toll of an accident, disaster, or war is the number of people who die in it.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- debateable — Archaic spelling of debatable.
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- debilities — Plural form of debility.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debt limit — (in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government.
- debt-laden — having large debts
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- decadelong — lasting for a decade: After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decathlete — a participant in a decathlon
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceitfull — Archaic form of deceitful.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
- decennials — Plural form of decennial.
- decennoval — relating to nineteen