10-letter words containing r, i, d, g, e
- coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
- configured — Simple past tense and past participle of configure.
- coreid bug — leaf-footed bug.
- corregidor — an island at the entrance to Manila Bay, in the Philippines: site of the defeat of American forces by the Japanese (1942) in World War II
- corrigenda — Plural form of corrigendum.
- daggerlike — resembling a dagger in shape or form
- dagobert i — a.d. 602?–639, Merovingian king of the Franks 628–639.
- daringness — The state or quality of being daring.
- darjeeling — a town in NE India, in West Bengal in the Himalayas, at an altitude of about 2250 m (7500 ft). Pop: 107 530 (2001)
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- de gasperi — Alcide (alˈtʃiːde). 1881–1954, Italian statesman; prime minister (1945–53). An antifascist, he led the Christian Democratic party during World War II from the Vatican City
- de rigueur — If you say that a possession or habit is de rigueur, you mean that it is fashionable and therefore necessary for anyone who wants to avoid being considered unfashionable.
- debriefing — A debriefing is a meeting where someone such as a soldier, diplomat, or astronaut is asked to give a report on an operation or task that they have just completed.
- debris bug — a bug of the family Cimicidae found where vegetable debris accumulates and feeding on small arthropods like springtails: related to the bedbugs
- decentring — to put out of center.
- decorating — the painting or wallpapering of a room, house, etc
- decreasing — becoming less or fewer; diminishing.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- deenergize — To remove a source of energy from.
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- defreezing — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- defrosting — Present participle of defrost.
- degression — a decrease by stages
- degressive — reducing by gradual amounts
- dei gratia — by the grace of God
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- delighters — a high degree of pleasure or enjoyment; joy; rapture: She takes great delight in her job.
- delivering — Present participle of deliver.
- demivierge — a woman who engages in promiscuous sexual activity but retains her virginity
- denaturing — Present participle of denature.
- denigrated — Simple past tense and past participle of denigrate.
- denigrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denigrate.
- denigrator — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- deregister — to remove (oneself, a car, etc) from a register
- deridingly — In a deriding way; mockingly.
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- 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.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- dethroning — Present participle of dethrone.