10-letter words containing n, o, s, d
- 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.
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- des moines — a city in S central Iowa: state capital. Pop: 196 093 (2003 est)
- descension — the action of descending; descent
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- desertions — Plural form of desertion.
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator
- desolating — Present participle of desolate.
- desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- désorienté — having lost one's bearings; confused
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- despoiling — plundering by force
- despondent — If you are despondent, you are very unhappy because you have been experiencing difficulties that you think you will not be able to overcome.
- desponding — to be depressed by loss of hope, confidence, or courage.
- destocking — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- detections — Plural form of detection.
- detentions — Plural form of detention.
- detonators — Plural form of detonator.
- detritions — Plural form of detrition.
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- devoutness — devoted to divine worship or service; pious; religious: a devout Catholic.
- di stéfano — Alfredo (ɑlˈfredo). 1926–2014, Argentinian-born football player, who played for Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and Real Madrid
- diaconates — Plural form of diaconate.
- 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.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- 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
- digestions — Plural form of digestion.
- digression — the act of digressing.
- dimensions — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dinosauric — Of or pertaining to dinosaurs.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
- directions — the act or an instance of directing.
- disanalogy — A lack or failure of analogy.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.
- discission — an incision of the lens of the eye, as for removal of cataract.