10-letter words containing m, e, d, i
- 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.
- derivement — (obsolete) That which is derived; deduction; inference.
- dermatitis — Dermatitis is a medical condition which makes your skin red and painful.
- dermatosis — any skin disease
- dermestids — Plural form of dermestid.
- des moines — a city in S central Iowa: state capital. Pop: 196 093 (2003 est)
- desiderium — a powerful desire or yearning, especially for something once had
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- designment — designation, design
- desirement — (nonstandard) something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator
- despotisms — Plural form of despotism.
- destemming — to remove the stem from (a fruit or vegetable); stem.
- 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.
- determined — If you are determined to do something, you have made a firm decision to do it and will not let anything stop you.
- determiner — In grammar, a determiner is a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate, for example, which thing you are referring to or whether you are referring to one thing or several. Common English determiners are 'a', 'the', 'some', 'this', and 'each'.
- determines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of determine.
- detriments — Plural form of detriment.
- 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
- dibromides — Plural form of dibromide.
- 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.
- dim-witted — a stupid or slow-thinking person.
- dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, especially such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920.
- dime store — five-and-ten (def 1).
- dimensions — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- dimetrodon — an extinct carnivorous mammallike reptile, of the genus Dimetrodon, dominant in North America during the Permian Period, up to 10 feet (3.1 meter) long and usually bearing spinal sails.
- dimidiated — Simple past tense and past participle of dimidiate.
- diminished — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- diminishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of diminish.
- diminuendo — a gradual reduction of force or loudness.
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.
- dimplement — the state of being dimpled
- dinnertime — the period set aside for eating dinner.
- diothelism — the doctrine that Christ on earth had two wills, human and divine
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.