10-letter words containing s, e, c, t
- distracter — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
- districted — Simple past tense and past participle of district.
- ditheistic — Of or pertaining to ditheism, the belief in two gods.
- dixiecrats — a member of a faction of southern Democrats stressing states' rights and opposed to the civil-rights programs of the Democratic Party, especially a southern Democrat who bolted the party in 1948 and voted for the candidates of the States' Rights Democratic Party.
- do justice — present, treat fairly
- docentship — privatdocent.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doctorates — Plural form of doctorate.
- doctorless — Without a doctor or doctors.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- dosimetric — the process or method of measuring the dosage of ionizing radiation.
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- draconites — a type of precious stone thought to be found in a dragon's head
- dress coat — tail coat.
- dry socket — a painful inflammatory infection of the bone and tissues at the site of an extracted tooth.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- dust cover — a cloth or plastic covering used to protect furniture or equipment, as during a period of nonuse.
- dustjacket — Alternative form of dust jacket.
- dusty deck — Old software (especially applications) which one is obliged to remain compatible with, or to maintain. DP types call this "legacy code", a term hackers consider smarmy and excessively reverent. The term implies that the software in question is a holdover from card-punch days. Used especially when referring to old scientific and number crunching software, much of which was written in Fortran and very poorly documented but is believed to be too expensive to replace. See fossil; compare crawling horror.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dysgenetic — (genetics) Of, pertaining to, or causing dysgenesis.
- dyskinetic — difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
- east coast — the region of the U.S. bordering on the Atlantic Ocean.
- eccentrics — Plural form of eccentric; persons who have unusual tendancies.
- ecclesiast — A member of the Athenian Ecclesia.
- ecclestone — Bernard, known as Bernie. born 1930, British businessman and sports administrator; head of Formula One motor racing (1995–2017)
- ecdysiasts — Plural form of ecdysiast.
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- ecologists — Plural form of ecologist.
- economists — Plural form of economist.
- ecosystems — a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.
- ecotourism — tourism to places having unspoiled natural resources, with minimal impact on the environment being a primary concern.
- ecotourist — A participant in ecotourism.
- ecthlipsis — loss of a consonant, especially, in Latin, loss of a final m before a word beginning with a vowel or h.
- ectogenous — growing outside the body of the host, as certain bacteria and other parasites.
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectophytes — Plural form of ectophyte.
- ectoprocts — Plural form of ectoproct.
- ectostosis — the ossification of cartilage that begins under the perichondrium and proceeds inward.
- ectotherms — Plural form of ectotherm.
- eczematous — an inflammatory condition of the skin attended with itching and the exudation of serous matter.
- educations — Plural form of education.
- effectives — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectless — having no effect; useless
- egoistical — Caring about oneself rather than others.