10-letter words containing t, e, d
- death care — the products, services, and arrangements having to do with funerals and burials.
- death cell — a prison cell for criminals sentenced to death
- death code — A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer - registers, memory, flags - to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction. Death code isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the PDP-8 or the Data General Nova. Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the TI 990 series, where all registers are actually in RAM, and the instruction "store immediate 0" has the opcode 0. The program counter will immediately wrap around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of this instruction in startup code (which would be in ROM and therefore survive).
- death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
- death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
- death rate — The death rate is the number of people per thousand who die in a particular area during a particular period of time.
- death roll — a list of the people killed in a war or disaster
- death seat — the seat beside the driver of a vehicle
- death star — ["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a starscape with a space fighter labelled 4.2BSD streaking away from a broken AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, "Focus", uses "death star" to describe an incorrectly done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark instead of light - a frequent result of dark-on-light logo images.
- death toll — The death toll of an accident, disaster, or war is the number of people who die in it.
- death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- death wish — A death wish is a conscious or unconscious desire to die or be killed.
- deathblows — Plural form of deathblow.
- deathcamas — any of various plants (genus Zigadenus) of the lily family, with grasslike basal leaves and clusters of greenish or white flowers: often poisonous to sheep
- deathmatch — (in wrestling) a match in which many of the normal rules do not apply, typically leading to a more violent contest.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
- deathwatch — a vigil held beside a dying or dead person
- debasement — Debasement is the action of reducing the value or quality of something.
- debateable — Archaic spelling of debatable.
- debatement — the act of deliberating or arguing about something
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- debentures — Plural form of debenture.
- debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- debilities — Plural form of debility.
- debit card — A debit card is a bank card that you can use to pay for things. When you use it the money is taken out of your bank account immediately.
- debit side — The debit side of an account is the left-hand side.
- debt issue — a fixed corporate obligation, as a bond or debenture.
- debt limit — (in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government.
- debt-laden — having large debts
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- debutantes — Plural form of debutante.
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- decameters — Plural form of decameter.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decathexis — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlete — a participant in a decathlon
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceitfull — Archaic form of deceitful.
- decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
- decembrist — a participant in the unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicolas I in Dec 1825