10-letter words containing k, e, d
- dressmaker — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- dried milk — dehydrated milk from which about 95 percent of the moisture has been evaporated.
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- drudgework — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drug-taker — someone who takes illegal drugs
- drum brake — a brake system in which a pair of brake shoes can be pressed against the inner surface of a shallow metal drum that is rigidly attached to a wheel.
- drunk text — a text message sent by someone who is intoxicated.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duck-shove — to evade responsibility (for)
- duckbilled — Having a bill like that of a duck.
- duckfooted — afflicted with splayfoot.
- duckshover — one who duckshoves, jumps a queue; cheats
- duckwalked — Simple past tense and past participle of duckwalk.
- dukkeripen — fortune-telling
- dull knife — (Tah-me-la-pash-me) died 1883, leader of the Northern Cheyenne.
- dunderfunk — a combination of ship's biscuit and molasses that is baked
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dyskinesia — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- dyskinesis — A reduced ability to control and coordinate movement.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- dzerzhinsk — a city in the central Russian Federation in Europe, W of Nizhni Novgorod.
- enkindling — Present participle of enkindle.
- eskimo dog — a large powerful breed of sled dog with a long thick coat and curled tail
- feedbacker — One who provides feedback.
- feedstocks — Plural form of feedstock.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- field work — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- firedrakes — Plural form of firedrake.
- fixed disk — (storage) A hard disk which is not a removable disk.
- fixed link — a permanent transport link, esp a bridge, between two geographical areas separated by water
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- forklifted — Simple past tense and past participle of forklift.
- french kid — kidskin tanned by an alum or vegetable process and finished in a manner originally employed by the French.
- front desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
- funkadelia — A psychedelic musical genre, with funk roots.
- funkadelic — (music) Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded