10-letter words containing n, s, p
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- 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.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- 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.
- 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.
- depletions — Plural form of depletion.
- 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.
- deputising — to appoint as deputy.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- desipience — folly; silliness
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- 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.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
- 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.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- discipling — Religion. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disenvelop — to unfold
- 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.
- dispelling — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- dispencing — Present participle of dispence.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.