10-letter words containing t, h, e, c, a
- 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).
- 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.
- deathwatch — a vigil held beside a dying or dead person
- 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.
- deck watch — (on a ship) a precision watch used on deck for navigational purposes to avoid disturbing the chronometer.
- decreaseth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrease.
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- detachable — If a part of an object is detachable, it has been made so that it can be removed from the object.
- detachably — in a detachable fashion
- detachedly — in a detached fashion
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- dethatched — Simple past tense and past participle of dethatch.
- diarrhetic — an intestinal disorder characterized by abnormal frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
- dispatched — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dispatcher — a person who dispatches.
- dispatches — Plural form of dispatch.
- ditchwater — water, especially stagnant and dirty water, that has collected in a ditch.
- ditrochean — consisting of two trochees
- dogcatcher — a person employed by a municipal pound, humane society, or the like, to find and impound stray or homeless dogs, cats, etc.
- dogwatches — Plural form of dogwatch.
- each other — Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two (The two candidates respected each other) and one another in reference to three or more (The three nations threaten one another), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more. The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.
- echinulate — (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- echolocate — To locate by means of echolocation.
- ecphractic — having the property of removing obstructions
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- empathetic — Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic.
- emphatical — Emphatic.
- emphractic — medication that closes the pores of the skin
- encashment — (finance) The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.
- enchanters — Plural form of enchanter.
- enchanting — Delightfully charming or attractive.
- endothecia — Plural form of endothecium.
- enomotarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of an enomoty.
- epicanthic — Denoting a fold of skin from the upper eyelid covering the inner angle of the eye, typical in many peoples of eastern Asia and found as a congenital abnormality elsewhere.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.