10-letter words containing e, l, i, c
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- curselarie — (in the works of Shakespeare) cursory
- curtilages — Plural form of curtilage.
- cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
- cyberdelic — Of or pertaining to a fusion of modern cyberculture with the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s.
- cycle clip — a ring of taut metal that fits on a person's ankles to hold trouser bottoms tight and prevent them getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- cycle hire — a business which rents out bikes to tourists, travellers, etc
- cycle ride — a ride on a bicycle
- cyclodiene — a group of organic insecticides, many of which are banned in the US and Europe
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cyclopedic — like a cyclopedia in character or contents; broad and varied; exhaustive.
- cylindered — Having a specified kind or number of cylinders.
- cylindrite — a mineral made up of cylindrical crystals containing tin, iron, lead, and antimony
- cytologies — the study of the microscopic appearance of cells, especially for the diagnosis of abnormalities and malignancies.
- d particle — D meson.
- daemonical — Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
- dalliances — A casual romantic or sexual relationship.
- de-license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceitfull — Archaic form of deceitful.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decennials — Plural form of decennial.
- deceptible — capable of being deceived
- 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.
- deciliters — Plural form of deciliter.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- decisional — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- decisively — having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important: Your argument was the decisive one.
- decivilize — to cause (a person) to be uncivilized
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- declension — the inflection of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives for case, number, and gender
- declinable — that can be declined; having case inflections
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- declotting — a mass or lump.
- decoctible — capable of being decocted
- decolonise — to release from the status of a colony.
- decolonize — to grant independence to (a colony)
- decolorize — to take the color out of, as by bleaching
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- deconflict — Military. to avoid a potential clash or accident involving (nonenemy military operations, weaponry, etc.) in a particular combat area: to deconflict coalition forces from three nations. to avoid such conflict in (a combat area): to deconflict airspace.
- decoupling — the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently