10-letter words containing i, d, e, a
- dilacerate — to tear apart or to pieces.
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dilemmatic — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- dilettante — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- dilettanti — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- dilucidate — to elucidate
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- dimidiated — Simple past tense and past participle of dimidiate.
- dinanderie — fine cast metalwork objects, esp of bronze, made in the Belgian city of Dinant from the late Middle Ages, or other later metalwork in this style
- dinnerware — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
- diocletian — (Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus) a.d. 245–316, Illyrian soldier: emperor of Rome 284–305.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- direct tax — a tax exacted directly from the persons who will bear the burden of it (without reimbursement to them at the expense of others), as a poll tax, a general property tax, or an income tax.
- directable — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- disaffects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disaffect.
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- disanimate — to deprive (a person or thing) of vigour or spirit
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disappears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disappear.
- disapplied — Simple past tense and past participle of disapply.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.
- disc brake — a brake system in which a disc attached to a wheel is slowed by the friction of brake pads being pressed against the disc by a caliper.
- discarnate — without a physical body; incorporeal.
- discharged — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dischargee — a person who has been discharged, as from military service.
- discharger — Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm.
- discharges — Plural form of discharge.
- disclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclaim.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- discreated — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- diseaseful — troublesome
- disembargo — to remove an embargo from.
- disembarks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembark.
- diseminate — Misspelling of disseminate.
- disenabled — Simple past tense and past participle of disenable.