10-letter words containing n, a, s, d
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- desalinate — to remove the salt from (esp from sea water)
- desalinize — desalt.
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- desiccants — Plural form of desiccant.
- designated — (of a truth value) corresponding to truth in a two-valued logic, or having one of the analogous values in a many-valued logic
- designates — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desolating — Present participle of desolate.
- desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- dessalines — Jean-Jacques (ʒɑ̃ ʒɑk). ?1758–1806, emperor of Haiti (1804–06) after driving out the French; assassinated
- dessiatina — A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
- dessiatine — a Russian unit of area equal to approximately 2.7 acres or 10 800 square metres
- dessyatine — a Russian measure of land, equivalent to 2.7 acres
- detonators — Plural form of detonator.
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- dextranase — an enzyme which breaks down dextran, and is therefore useful for, among other things, preventing tooth decay
- dextrinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin.
- di stéfano — Alfredo (ɑlˈfredo). 1926–2014, Argentinian-born football player, who played for Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and Real Madrid
- diaconates — Plural form of diaconate.
- diagenesis — the sum of the physical, chemical, and biological changes that take place in sediments as they become consolidated into rocks, including compaction and cementation, but excluding weathering and metamorphic changes
- diagnosing — Present participle of diagnose.
- diagnostic — Diagnostic equipment, methods, or systems are used for discovering what is wrong with people who are ill or with things that do not work properly.
- diakinesis — the final stage of the prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosomes start to separate after crossing over
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dickensian — of Charles Dickens or his works
- dictations — Plural form of dictation.
- didanosine — 2',3'-dideoxyinosine, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor effective against HIV.
- didynamous — (of plants) having four stamens arranged in two pairs of unequal length, as in the foxglove
- dieticians — Plural form of dietician.
- dietitians — Plural form of dietitian.
- diflunisal — a substance, C 13 H 8 F 2 O 3 , used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of rheumatoid diseases and other musculoskeletal disorders.
- dinosauric — Of or pertaining to dinosaurs.
- 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.
- disabusing — Present participle of disabuse.
- disadvance — to stop or cause to stop advancing
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- disanalogy — A lack or failure of analogy.
- disanimate — to deprive (a person or thing) of vigour or spirit
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- disarrange — to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.