10-letter words containing p, i, e, c
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cyclopedic — like a cyclopedia in character or contents; broad and varied; exhaustive.
- cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
- d particle — D meson.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceptible — capable of being deceived
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- deciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decipherer — A person who deciphers.
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- decoupling — the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently
- decrepitly — In a decrepit way.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desipience — folly; silliness
- despective — Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
- 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.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dip circle — an instrument for measuring dip, consisting of a dip needle with a vertical circular scale of angles
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- 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.
- discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disk space — a number of bytes on a disk for the storage of data
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- dispencing — Present participle of dispence.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- disprinced — rendered unprincely
- disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.