10-letter words containing m, a, i, e
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
- 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.
- defamation — Defamation is the damaging of someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehumanize — If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- delaminate — to divide or cause to divide into thin layers
- deliminate — To delimit, especially in the computing sense.
- delimitate — delimit.
- demagogism — The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.
- demand bid — a bid to which one's partner is obliged to respond.
- demantoids — Plural form of demantoid.
- demicanton — either of the two parts of certain Swiss cantons
- demilancer — A soldier who carries a demilance.
- demiquaver — a sixteenth note; semiquaver.
- demisexual — (of humans) Sexually attracted to people only after a strong emotional bond has been formed.
- demitasses — Plural form of demitasse.
- 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.
- demoralise — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demoralize — If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up.
- demotivate — to cause (a person) to lose motivation
- denominate — to give a specific name to; designate
- deracemize — (chemistry) To convert a racemic mixture into one or other of the enantiomers.
- derailment — A derailment is an accident in which a train comes off the track on which it is running.
- dermatitis — Dermatitis is a medical condition which makes your skin red and painful.
- dermatosis — any skin disease
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- detail man — a salesman for a pharmaceutical firm who visits doctors, dentists, etc. in a certain district to promote new drugs
- detainment — to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
- diagometer — an instrument invented by Rousseau, formerly used to measure the electrical conductivity of substances
- diagrammed — Simple past tense and past participle of diagram.
- diamantane — (chemistry) A diamondoid consisting of two face-fused cages.
- diamantine — of or resembling diamonds
- diamondize — (transitive) To set with diamonds; to adorn or enrich.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diastemata — Plural form of diastema.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- 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.
- 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.
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- disanimate — to deprive (a person or thing) of vigour or spirit
- disbarment — to expel from the legal profession or from the bar of a particular court.