10-letter words containing n, a, p, s
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- depanneurs — Plural form of depanneur.
- depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- dependants — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- dispairing — Present participle of dispair.
- dispanding — Present participle of dispand.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- disparting — Present participle of dispart.
- dispassion — the state or quality of being unemotional or emotionally uninvolved.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- dispersant — something that disperses.
- displacing — Present participle of displace.
- displaying — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- dispondaic — of or relating to a dispondee
- disputants — Plural form of disputant.
- disruptant — That which disrupts.
- drainpipes — a large pipe that carries away the discharge of waste pipes, soil pipes, etc.
- drainspout — downspout.
- duennaship — The role or status of duenna.
- east point — a city in N Georgia, near Atlanta.
- eigenspace — (linear algebra) A set of the eigenvectors associated with a particular eigenvalue, together with the zero vector.
- emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
- empennages — Plural form of empennage.
- emplastron — a plaster containing a balm or medication
- en passant — in passing: in chess, said of capturing a pawn that has made an initial move of two squares to its fourth rank, bypassing the square where an enemy pawn on its own fifth rank could capture it. The capture is made as if the captured pawn had moved one square instead of two
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- enraptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enrapture.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- epicureans — Plural form of epicurean.
- epinasties — Plural form of epinasty.
- epiphanies — Plural form of epiphany.
- epiphanous — showing an epiphany
- episcopant — a bishop
- episternal — Of or pertaining to the episternum.
- escapement — A mechanism in a clock or watch that alternately checks and releases the train by a fixed amount and transmits a periodic impulse from the spring or weight to the balance wheel or pendulum.
- escarpment — A long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.
- espionages — Plural form of espionage.
- esplanades — Plural form of esplanade.
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.