10-letter words containing m, u, d
- decumbence — The act or posture of lying down.
- decumbency — Decumbence.
- decumulate — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- deducement — an assumption or deduction
- deer mouse — any of various mice of the genus Peromyscus, esp P. maniculatus, of North and Central America, having brownish fur with white underparts: family Cricetidae
- 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.
- dehumidify — to remove water from (something, esp the air)
- delphinium — A delphinium is a garden plant which has a tall stem with blue flowers growing up it.
- demagogued — Simple past tense and past participle of demagogue.
- demagogues — Plural form of demagogue.
- demeanours — Plural form of demeanour.
- demeasnure — demeanour
- demiquaver — a sixteenth note; semiquaver.
- demisexual — (of humans) Sexually attracted to people only after a strong emotional bond has been formed.
- demob suit — a suit of civilian clothes issued to a demobilized soldier, esp at the end of World War II
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- demodulate — to carry out demodulation on (a wave or signal)
- demounting — Present participle of demount.
- demureness — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
- demurrages — Plural form of demurrage.
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- denouement — In a book, play, or series of events, the denouement is the sequence of events at the end, when things come to a conclusion.
- denudement — the condition of being denuded
- desiderium — a powerful desire or yearning, especially for something once had
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- desquamate — (esp of the skin in certain diseases) to peel or come off in scales
- deus ramos — João de [zhwoun duh] /ʒwãʊ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1830–96, Portuguese poet.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- devourment — the act of devouring
- diadromous — of or possessing a leaf venation in the shape of a fan
- dicoumarin — any compound formed with two bonded coumarin molecules
- dicoumarol — a substance obtained naturally from sweet clover or produced synthetically as a drug, used as an anticoagulant
- didynamous — (of plants) having four stamens arranged in two pairs of unequal length, as in the foxglove
- digitorium — a small portable keyboard for a pianist to play finger exercises on
- diminuendo — a gradual reduction of force or loudness.
- diminution — the act, fact, or process of diminishing; lessening; reduction.
- diminutive — small; little; tiny: a diminutive building for a model-train layout.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- dinkum oil — the truth
- 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.
- disembogue — to discharge contents by pouring forth.
- dismounted — Pertaining to a horseman who has gotten off his horse, or to something which has been removed from its usual mounting, as with a statue off its pedestal, a framed picture from a wall, or a chandelier hanging from a ceiling.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- displuming — Present participle of displume.
- dissimuler — (obsolete) A dissembler.
- disulfiram — a cream-colored, water-insoluble solid, C 10 H 20 N 2 S 4 , used chiefly in the treatment of chronic alcoholism, producing highly unpleasant symptoms when alcohol is taken following its administration.
- docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.