10-letter words containing n, d
- department — A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.
- dependable — If you say that someone or something is dependable, you approve of them because you feel that you can be sure that they will always act consistently or sensibly, or do what you need them to do.
- dependably — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- dependance — the state of relying on or needing someone or something for aid, support, or the like.
- dependancy — the state of being dependent; dependence.
- dependants — relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
- dependence — Your dependence on something or someone is your need for them in order to succeed or be able to survive.
- dependency — A dependency is a country which is controlled by another country.
- dependents — Plural form of dependent.
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depletions — Plural form of depletion.
- deployment — The deployment of troops, resources, or equipment is the organization and positioning of them so that they are ready for quick action.
- deportment — Your deportment is the way you behave, especially the way you walk and move.
- depositing — Present participle of deposit.
- deposition — A deposition is a formal written statement, made for example by a witness to a crime, which can be used in a court of law if the witness cannot be present.
- depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
- depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- deputising — to appoint as deputy.
- deracinate — to pull up by or as if by the roots; uproot; extirpate
- derailment — A derailment is an accident in which a train comes off the track on which it is running.
- deridingly — In a deriding way; mockingly.
- derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
- derivement — (obsolete) That which is derived; deduction; inference.
- dermatogen — a meristem at the apex of stems and roots that gives rise to the epidermis
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
- derricking — Machinery. a jib crane having a boom hinged near the base of the mast so as to rotate about the mast, for moving a load toward or away from the mast by raising or lowering the boom.
- derring-do — Derring-do is the quality of being bold, often in a rather showy or foolish way.
- derringers — Plural form of derringer.
- des moines — a city in S central Iowa: state capital. Pop: 196 093 (2003 est)
- 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.
- descendent — coming or going downwards; descending
- descenders — Plural form of descender.
- descendeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- descendeur — a shaped metal piece through which the rope can be fed: used to control the rate of descent in abseiling
- descending — When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it.
- descension — the action of descending; descent
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- desertions — Plural form of desertion.
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- desiccants — Plural form of desiccant.