8-letter words starting with dec
- declarer — a person who declares
- declares — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declare.
- declasse — having lost social standing or status
- declawed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaw.
- declinal — the action of politely refusing or declining
- declined — to withhold or deny consent to do, enter into or upon, etc.; refuse: He declined to say more about it.
- decliner — One who declines.
- declines — Plural form of decline.
- declutch — to disengage the clutch of a motor vehicle
- decocted — Simple past tense and past participle of decoct.
- decoders — Plural form of decoder.
- decoding — the act or the process of converting something from a coded form into a normal form
- decolour — to deprive of colour, as by bleaching
- decomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of ten squares.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action
- deconned — Simple past tense and past participle of decon.
- decorate — If you decorate something, you make it more attractive by adding things to it.
- decorous — Decorous behaviour is very respectable, calm, and polite.
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- decouple — If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended.
- decoying — Present participle of decoy.
- decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- decreets — Plural form of decreet.
- decrepid — Obsolete spelling of decrepit (17th-20th c.).
- decrepit — Something that is decrepit is old and in bad condition. Someone who is decrepit is old and weak.
- decresc. — decrescendo
- decretal — a papal edict on doctrine or church law
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
- decrying — Present participle of decry.
- decrypts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decrypt.
- decupled — Simple past tense and past participle of decuple.
- decuples — Plural form of decuple.
- decuplet — (physics) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
- decurion — a local councillor
- decurved — bent or curved downwards
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.