10-letter words containing m, e, d, i, c
- customised — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customized — modified according to a customer's individual requirements
- daemonical — Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- 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.
- decembrist — a participant in the unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicolas I in Dec 1825
- 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.
- decimeters — Plural form of decimeter.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- 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.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- 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.
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- 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.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictyosome — a Golgi body, esp in a plant cell
- dilemmatic — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- direct sum — a composition of two disjoint sets, as vector spaces, such that every element in the composition can be written uniquely as the sum of two elements, one from each of the given sets.
- discectomy — Surgical removal of the whole or a part of an intervertebral disc.
- disclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of disclaim.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- discommend — to express disapproval of; belittle; disparage. The diners discommended the wine.
- discommode — to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- diseconomy — a lack of economy.
- 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.
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- dominicale — a veil formerly worn by women during divine service.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- duodecimal — pertaining to twelfths or to the number 12.
- duodecimos — Plural form of duodecimo.
- echinoderm — any marine animal of the invertebrate phylum Echinodermata, having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened by calcareous pieces that may protrude as spines and including the starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, etc.
- economised — (UK) Simple past tense and past participle of economise.
- economized — Simple past tense and past participle of economize.
- encomienda — A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
- endamoebic — relating to endamebae
- endemicity — The quality of being endemic.