10-letter words containing p, e, d
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- despective — Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
- desperados — Plural form of desperado.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- despiteous — malicious; spiteful.
- despoilers — Plural form of despoiler.
- 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.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotisms — Plural form of despotism.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- developers — Plural form of developer.
- developing — If you talk about developing countries or the developing world, you mean the countries or the parts of the world that are poor and have few industries.
- diapedesis — the passage of blood cells through the unruptured wall of a blood vessel into the surrounding tissues
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- dienophile — (organic chemistry) A compound that readily reacts with a diene; especially an alkene in the Diels-Alder reaction.
- 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.
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.
- dimplement — the state of being dimpled
- dip circle — an instrument for measuring dip, consisting of a dip needle with a vertical circular scale of angles
- dip needle — an early form of magnetometer, consisting of a magnetic needle pivoted through its center of gravity and having its axis through the vertical plane of the earth's magnetic meridian so as to point in the direction of maximum magnetic intensity.
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- dipeptides — Plural form of dipeptide.
- dipeptidyl — (biochemistry) Of or pertaining to dipeptides.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- 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.
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- diremption — a sharp division into two parts; disjunction; separation.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)