10-letter words containing s, e, n, d, i
- descending — When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it.
- descension — the action of descending; descent
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- desertions — Plural form of desertion.
- 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.
- 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
- desirement — (nonstandard) something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desistence — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- deskilling — Present participle of deskill.
- desludging — mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator
- desolating — Present participle of desolate.
- desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- désorienté — having lost one's bearings; confused
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- despoiling — plundering by force
- desponding — to be depressed by loss of hope, confidence, or courage.
- dessalines — Jean-Jacques (ʒɑ̃ ʒɑk). ?1758–1806, emperor of Haiti (1804–06) after driving out the French; assassinated
- dessiatina — A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
- dessiatine — a Russian unit of area equal to approximately 2.7 acres or 10 800 square metres
- dessyatine — a Russian measure of land, equivalent to 2.7 acres
- destemming — to remove the stem from (a fruit or vegetable); stem.
- destocking — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- destroying — Present participle of destroy.
- detections — Plural form of detection.
- detentions — Plural form of detention.
- determines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of determine.
- detriments — Plural form of detriment.
- detritions — Plural form of detrition.
- deviations — Plural form of deviation.
- devonshire — 8th Duke of, title of Spencer Compton Cavendish. 1833–1908, British politician, also known (1858–91) as Lord Hartington. He led the Liberal Party (1874–80) and left it to found the Liberal Unionist Party (1886)
- dextrinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a dextrin.
- di stéfano — Alfredo (ɑlˈfredo). 1926–2014, Argentinian-born football player, who played for Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and Real Madrid
- diaconates — Plural form of diaconate.
- diagenesis — the sum of the physical, chemical, and biological changes that take place in sediments as they become consolidated into rocks, including compaction and cementation, but excluding weathering and metamorphic changes
- diakinesis — the final stage of the prophase of meiosis, during which homologous chromosomes start to separate after crossing over
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.