10-letter words containing e, n, t, r
- deodorants — Plural form of deodorant.
- deodourant — Rare spelling of deodorant.
- department — A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.
- deportment — Your deportment is the way you behave, especially the way you walk and move.
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- derailment — A derailment is an accident in which a train comes off the track on which it is running.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- derivement — (obsolete) That which is derived; deduction; inference.
- dermatogen — a meristem at the apex of stems and roots that gives rise to the epidermis
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- desertions — Plural form of desertion.
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desirement — (nonstandard) something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
- désorienté — having lost one's bearings; confused
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- detergency — cleansing power
- detergents — Plural form of detergent.
- determents — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
- determined — If you are determined to do something, you have made a firm decision to do it and will not let anything stop you.
- determiner — In grammar, a determiner is a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate, for example, which thing you are referring to or whether you are referring to one thing or several. Common English determiners are 'a', 'the', 'some', 'this', and 'each'.
- determines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of determine.
- deterrence — Deterrence is the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
- deterrents — Plural form of deterrent.
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.
- detonators — Plural form of detonator.
- detracting — to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually followed by from).
- detraction — a person, thing, circumstance, etc, that detracts
- detraining — to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- detriments — Plural form of detriment.
- detritions — Plural form of detrition.
- detruncate — to cut off a part of; truncate
- devourment — the act of devouring
- dewatering — the act of removing water
- dextranase — an enzyme which breaks down dextran, and is therefore useful for, among other things, preventing tooth decay
- dextrinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin.
- dextrinize — (transitive) To convert (starch molecules) to dextrin.
- dextrinoid — (mycology) Applied to a mushroom that turns reddish-brown upon application of Melzer's reagent.
- diet drink — a type of drink, usually a version of an existing drink, that is marketed as being good for slimmers because it is low in calories
- differents — Plural form of different.
- dimetrodon — an extinct carnivorous mammallike reptile, of the genus Dimetrodon, dominant in North America during the Permian Period, up to 10 feet (3.1 meter) long and usually bearing spinal sails.
- dinitrogen — (chemistry) the normal nitrogen molecule having two atoms.
- dinnertime — the period set aside for eating dinner.
- directions — the act or an instance of directing.
- directness — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.