10-letter words containing the
- by the bye — incidentally; by the way: used as a sentence connector
- by the lee — so that the wind is blowing on the wrong side of the sail
- by the way — You say by the way when you add something to what you are saying, especially something that you have just thought of.
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- cathecting — Present participle of cathect.
- cathedrals — Plural form of cathedral.
- cathemeral — Relating to organisms that have sporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired.
- cathepsins — Plural form of cathepsin.
- clisthenes — Cleisthenes
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- cytherea's — Aphrodite: so called because of her birth in the sea near Cythera.
- 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.
- deinothere — a member of the genus Deinotherium
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- den mother — a woman who supervises meetings of a den of Cub Scouts
- dermatherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- dermotherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- diothelete — a believer in diothelism
- diothelism — the doctrine that Christ on earth had two wills, human and divine
- diothelite — a believer in the doctrine of ditheletism
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- dissheathe — to bring out of a sheathe; to unsheathe
- ditheistic — Of or pertaining to ditheism, the belief in two gods.
- ditheletic — of or relating to dithelism
- ditherings — Plural form of dithering.
- duotheists — Plural form of duotheist.
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- dyothelete — a person who subscribes to the teaching that Christ had both a human and a divine will
- 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.
- ectotherms — Plural form of ectotherm.
- ectothermy — (biology) The condition of being ectothermic or warm-blooded; the ability to maintain the body's temperature.
- either way — whichever is true
- empathetic — Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic.
- endothecia — Plural form of endothecium.
- endothelia — Plural form of endothelium.
- endotherms — Plural form of endotherm.
- endothermy — (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism.
- ensheathed — Simple past tense and past participle of ensheathe.
- enthesitis — (pathology) An inflammatory disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- enwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of enwreathe.
- epentheses — Plural form of epenthesis.
- epenthesis — The insertion of a sound or letter within a word, e.g., the b in thimble.
- epenthetic — (linguistics) Of or pertaining to epenthesis; having been inserted into a word, as an epenthetic phoneme or syllable.
- epithelial — Of or pertaining to the epithelium.
- epithelium — The thin tissue forming the outer layer of a body’s surface and lining the alimentary canal and other hollow structures.
- epithelize — to cover with epithelium
- epithermal — relating to minerals formed from warm, shallow water