10-letter words containing l, e, t, u
- cut velvet — a fabric in which the looped pile has been cut. Compare velvet.
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceitfull — Archaic form of deceitful.
- declutched — Simple past tense and past participle of declutch.
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- deductable — Alternative spelling of deductibletrue; that which can be deducted.
- deductible — If a payment or expense is deductible, it can be deducted from another sum such as your income, for example, when calculating how much income tax you have to pay.
- defaulters — Plural form of defaulter.
- defaulting — guilty of a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation
- delft blue — the blue colour of Delft ceramics
- delightful — If you describe something or someone as delightful, you mean they are very pleasant.
- delinquent — Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes.
- delustrant — an agent which removes lustre from something
- demodulate — to carry out demodulation on (a wave or signal)
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- deregulate — To deregulate something means to remove controls and regulations from it.
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- devaluated — Simple past tense and past participle of devaluate.
- devaluates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devaluate.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.
- dextrously — Alternative form of dexterously.
- dilucidate — to elucidate
- diluteness — The state or quality of being dilute.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disgruntle — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disquietly — In a disquiet manner.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- divulgated — to make publicly known; publish.
- documental — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doug lenat — (person) One of the world's leading computer scientists specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently (1999) head of the Cyc Project at MCC, and President of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. See also microLenat.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- duple time — characterized by two beats to the measure.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- dust devil — a small whirlwind 10–100 feet (3–30 meters) in diameter and from several hundred to 1000 feet (305 meters) high, common in dry regions on hot, calm afternoons and made visible by the dust, debris, and sand it picks up from the ground.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.