10-letter words containing m, a, c, e
- damascenes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damascene.
- damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- deathcamas — any of various plants (genus Zigadenus) of the lily family, with grasslike basal leaves and clusters of greenish or white flowers: often poisonous to sheep
- deathmatch — (in wrestling) a match in which many of the normal rules do not apply, typically leading to a more violent contest.
- decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
- decagramme — ten grammes
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decameters — Plural form of decameter.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- defacement — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defenceman — a defender in ice hockey and lacrosse
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- demarcated — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- demarcates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demarcate.
- demarcator — to determine or mark off the boundaries or limits of: to demarcate a piece of property.
- demicanton — either of the two parts of certain Swiss cantons
- demilancer — A soldier who carries a demilance.
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- demoniacal — of, relating to, or like a demon; demonic: demoniac laughter.
- deracemize — (chemistry) To convert a racemic mixture into one or other of the enantiomers.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dilemmatic — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- disclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclaim.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- dockmackie — a North American shrub, Viburnum acerifolium, of the honeysuckle family, having long stemmed clusters of white flowers and ovoid, almost black berries.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- 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.
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- dominicale — a veil formerly worn by women during divine service.