10-letter words containing s, d, e
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desecrater — One who desecrates.
- desecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desecrate.
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- deselected — Simple past tense and past participle of deselect.
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- desert pea — an Australian trailing leguminous plant, Clianthus formosus, with scarlet flowers
- desert rat — a jerboa, Jaculus orientalis, inhabiting the deserts of N Africa
- desertions — Plural form of desertion.
- desertless — undeserving, meritless
- desertlike — a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: The Sahara is a vast sandy desert. Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- deservedly — You use deservedly to indicate that someone deserved what happened to them, especially when it was something good.
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- desiccants — Plural form of desiccant.
- desiccated — Desiccated things have lost all the moisture that was in them.
- desiccates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desiccate.
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- desiderata — something wanted or needed.
- desiderate — to feel the lack of or need for; long for; miss
- desiderium — a powerful desire or yearning, especially for something once had
- designated — (of a truth value) corresponding to truth in a two-valued logic, or having one of the analogous values in a many-valued logic
- designates — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- designedly — by intention or design; on purpose; deliberately
- designless — without a design, unplanned
- designment — designation, design
- desipience — folly; silliness
- desirables — Plural form of desirable.
- desireable — Archaic form of desirable.
- desireless — without desire; having no longings
- desirement — (nonstandard) something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
- desirously — With desire; eagerly.
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desistence — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- desk clerk — A desk clerk is someone who works at the main desk in a hotel.
- desk study — a preliminary investigation and report into something collating currently available relevant information
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- deskilling — Present participle of deskill.
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- desludging — mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
- desmosomal — of or relating to desmosomes
- desmosomes — Plural form of desmosome.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator