10-letter words containing e, t, r
- czarevitch — the eldest son of a czar of Russia
- czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
- d particle — D meson.
- d'alembert — Jean Le Rond (ʒɑ̃ lə rɔ̃). 1717–83, French mathematician, physicist, and rationalist philosopher, noted for his contribution to Newtonian physics in Traité de dynamique (1743) and for his collaboration with Diderot in editing the Encyclopédie
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- dantrolene — a toxic orange powder, C 14 H 10 N 4 O 5 , used to control muscle spasms, as in the treatment of local trauma, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other neurological disorders.
- dastardize — To make cowardly; to intimidate or dispirit.
- data entry — Data entry is the activity of putting data into a computer, for example, by using a keyboard.
- data frame — activation record
- datacenter — a facility equipped with or connected to one or more computers, used for processing or transmitting data.
- datacentre — Alternative spelling of data centre.
- datatrieve — (database, language) A query and report system for use with DEC's VMS (RMS, VAX Rdb/VMS or VAX DBMS).
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- day letter — a telegram sent during the day at a slightly cheaper rate
- day return — A day return is a train or bus ticket which allows you to go somewhere and come back on the same day for a lower price than an ordinary return ticket.
- day trader — On the stock market, day traders are traders who buy and sell particular securities on the same day.
- dead water — water eddying beside a moving hull, especially directly astern.
- deaeration — the act of extracting a gas from a liquid
- deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
- deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
- death care — the products, services, and arrangements having to do with funerals and burials.
- death rate — The death rate is the number of people per thousand who die in a particular area during a particular period of time.
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- death star — ["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labelled 4.2BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses "death star" to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light - a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
- death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
- debentures — Plural form of debenture.
- debit card — A debit card is a bank card that you can use to pay for things. When you use it the money is taken out of your bank account immediately.
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decameters — Plural form of decameter.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
- decembrist — a participant in the unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicolas I in Dec 1825
- decentered — to put out of center.
- decentring — to put out of center.
- deciliters — Plural form of deciliter.
- decimeters — Plural form of decimeter.
- declarants — Plural form of declarant.
- declarator — an action seeking to have some right, status, etc, judicially ascertained
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- decollator — (computing) a machine that decollates (separates) the parts of multipart computer printout and discards the carbon paper.
- decolorant — able to decolour or bleach
- decolorate — to change or fade in colour
- decontract — (ambitransitive) To expand from a contracted state.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
- decorative — Something that is decorative is intended to look pretty or attractive.