10-letter words containing t, e, d
- dermatitis — Dermatitis is a medical condition which makes your skin red and painful.
- dermatogen — a meristem at the apex of stems and roots that gives rise to the epidermis
- dermatomal — Anatomy. an area of skin that is supplied with the nerve fibers of a single, posterior, spinal root.
- dermatomes — Plural form of dermatome.
- dermatoses — Plural form of dermatosis.
- dermatosis — any skin disease
- dermestids — Plural form of dermestid.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- dermotherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- derogating — Present participle of derogate.
- derogation — a lessening or weakening (of power, authority, position, etc.)
- derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatory — If you make a derogatory remark or comment about someone or something, you express your low opinion of them.
- desalinate — to remove the salt from (esp from sea water)
- desalivate — to arrest the flow of saliva in (a human or other animal).
- desaturase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of single to double bonds, especially in the production of essential fatty acids.
- desaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- descendent — coming or going downwards; descending
- descendeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- designment — designation, design
- 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.
- desk study — a preliminary investigation and report into something collating currently available relevant information
- desolately — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.