10-letter words containing m, e, d, l
- childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- climatised — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climatized — to acclimate to a new environment.
- cold cream — an emulsion of water and fat used cosmetically for softening and cleansing the skin
- cold frame — A cold frame is a wooden frame with a glass top in which you grow small plants to protect them from cold weather.
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- collimated — Simple past tense and past participle of collimate.
- columnated — Architecture. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces. a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- combinedly — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- commingled — Simple past tense and past participle of commingle.
- compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
- complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- complected — complexioned
- composedly — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- consumedly — (intensifier)
- coomceiled — (of an attic room) having a sloped or arching ceiling
- coromandel — calamander
- crippledom — the state of being crippled
- cuddlesome — cuddly (sense 1)
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- d'alembert — Jean Le Rond (ʒɑ̃ lə rɔ̃). 1717–83, French mathematician, physicist, and rationalist philosopher, noted for his contribution to Newtonian physics in Traité de dynamique (1743) and for his collaboration with Diderot in editing the Encyclopédie
- daemonical — Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
- damageable — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- damoiselle — a damsel
- damsel bug — any of various bugs of the carnivorous family Nabiidae, related to the bedbugs but feeding on other insects. The larvae of some species mimic and associate with ants
- damselfish — any small tropical percoid fish of the family Pomacentridae, having a brightly coloured deep compressed body
- data model — (database) The product of the database design process which aims to identify and organize the required data logically and physically. A data model says what information is to be contained in a database, how the information will be used, and how the items in the database will be related to each other. For example, a data model might specify that a customer is represented by a customer name and credit card number and a product as a product code and price, and that there is a one-to-many relation between a customer and a product. It can be difficult to change a database layout once code has been written and data inserted. A well thought-out data model reduces the need for such changes. Data modelling enhances application maintainability and future systems may re-use parts of existing models, which should lower development costs. A data modelling language is a mathematical formalism with a notation for describing data structures and a set of operations used to manipulate and validate that data. One of the most widely used methods for developing data models is the entity-relationship model. The relational model is the most widely used type of data model. Another example is NIAM.
- dazzlement — the action of dazzling
- de la mare — Walter (John). 1873–1956, English poet and novelist, noted esp for his evocative verse for children. His works include the volumes of poetry The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) and Peacock Pie (1913) and the novel Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
- dead metal — furniture (def 4).
- dead-metal — the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
- deal-maker — A deal-maker is someone in business or politics who makes deals.
- dealmakers — Plural form of dealmaker.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- debt limit — (in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government.
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- 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
- 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.
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- deemployed — to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people.