10-letter words starting with de
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decameters — Plural form of decameter.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decandrian — having or characterized by ten stamens or male organs in flowers
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- 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.
- deceased's — no longer living; dead.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceitfull — Archaic form of deceitful.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- deceivings — Plural form of deceiving.
- 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
- decennials — Plural form of decennial.
- decennoval — relating to nineteen
- decentered — to put out of center.
- decentring — to put out of center.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deceptible — capable of being deceived
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- decidingly — that settles a question or dispute or leads to a final decision; determining; decisive: the deciding vote; The weather will be the deciding factor as to whether we have the picnic or not.
- deciduitis — inflammation of the decidua.
- deciliters — Plural form of deciliter.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decimeters — Plural form of decimeter.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- deciphered — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- decipherer — A person who deciphers.
- decisional — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- decisioned — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- decisively — having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important: Your argument was the decisive one.
- decivilize — to cause (a person) to be uncivilized
- deck cabin — a cabin on the deck of a boat from which the vessel is steered
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship