10-letter words containing da
- edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
- elder days — The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings". Compare Iron Age. See also elvish and Great Worm.
- elder edda — a collection of mythological Old Norse poems made in the 12th century
- elucidated — Simple past tense and past participle of elucidate.
- elucidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elucidate.
- elucidator — One who elucidates.
- embeddable — That can be embedded.
- ember days — any of four groups of three days (always Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday) of prayer and fasting, the groups occurring after Pentecost, after the first Sunday of Lent, after the feast of St Lucy (Dec 13), and after the feast of the Holy Cross (Sept 14)
- emendation — The process of making a revision or correction to a text.
- emendatory — (archaic) Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- emulsoidal — of or relating to an emulsoid
- enchiladas — Plural form of enchilada.
- encomienda — A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
- endamoebic — relating to endamebae
- endangered — (of a species) Seriously at risk of extinction.
- endangerer — a person who puts someone or something at risk
- eudaemonia — Alternative spelling of eudemonia.
- eudaemonic — Conducive to happiness.
- eudaimonia — Alternative spelling of eudemonia.
- exceedance — An instance where an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by medical or legal practice.
- exheredate — to disinherit
- expandable — Having the capacity to be expanded.
- expendable — (of an object) Designed to be used only once and then abandoned or destroyed.
- explananda — Plural form of explanandum.
- extendable — Something that is extendable can be made longer.
- extrudable — able to be extruded
- exudations — Plural form of exudation.
- eye of day — the sun
- false dawn — zodiacal light occurring before sunrise.
- fecundated — Simple past tense and past participle of fecundate.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- feudalized — Simple past tense and past participle of feudalize.
- first dark — twilight.
- fissipedal — (zoology) Being or relating to a fissiped.
- five-a-day — the five portions of fruit and vegetables that people are recommended to eat every day as part of a healthy diet
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- fluoridate — to introduce a fluoride into: to fluoridate drinking water.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- foodaholic — a person having an excessive, often uncontrollable craving for food.
- foredamned — condemned at some earlier time to eternal damnation
- foredating — Present participle of foredate.
- foreordain — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- frigidaire — (now historical) A refrigerator.
- from day 1 — from the very beginning
- fundaments — Plural form of fundament.
- fungicidal — a substance or preparation, as a spray or dust, used for destroying fungi.