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Words starting with des

3 letter words starting with des

  • des — Department of Education and Science
  • des moines — a city in S central Iowa: state capital. Pop: 196 093 (2003 est)
  • des plaines — city in NE Ill.: suburb of Chicago: pop. 59,000
  • des pres — Josquin (ʒɔskɛ̃). ?1450–1521, Flemish Renaissance composer of masses, motets, and chansons
  • des res — (in estate agents' jargon) a desirable residence

4 letter words starting with des

  • dese — (slang) these.
  • desh — A person’s or a people’s native land.
  • desi — indigenous or local
  • desk — A desk is a table, often with drawers, which you sit at to write or work.
  • deso — designated driver.

5 letter words starting with des

  • desai — Morarji (Ranchhodji) (məˈrɑːdʒɪ). 1896–1995, Indian statesman, noted for his asceticism. He founded the Janata party in opposition to Indira Gandhi, whom he defeated in the 1977 election; prime minister of India (1977–79)
  • desex — to remove the sex organs of
  • desid — (zoology) Any member of the Desidae.
  • desks — Plural form of desk.
  • desna — a river in the W Russian Federation flowing S to join the Dnieper River near Kiev in Ukraine. About 500 miles (800 km) long.

6 letter words starting with des

  • desalt — to remove salt from (esp. sea water)
  • desand — to remove sand from
  • desart — Obsolete spelling of desert.
  • descry — to discern or make out; catch sight of
  • deseed — To deseed a fruit or vegetable means to remove all the seeds from it.

7 letter words starting with des

  • desalts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desalt.
  • descale — to remove the hard deposit formed by chemicals in water from (a kettle, pipe, etc)
  • descant — A descant is a tune which is played or sung above the main tune in a piece of music.
  • descend — If you descend or if you descend a staircase, you move downwards from a higher to a lower level.
  • descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.

8 letter words starting with des

  • desalted — Simple past tense and past participle of desalt.
  • desalter — an apparatus for desalting
  • desander — A desander is a device at the surface which removes very small particles from the drilling mud.
  • descaled — Simple past tense and past participle of descale.
  • descaler — a thing for removing limescale from something such as a tap, kettle or coffee machine.

9 letter words starting with des

  • desalting — Present participle of desalt.
  • desargues — Gérard [zhey-rar] /ʒeɪˈrar/ (Show IPA), 1593–1662, French mathematician.
  • descaling — Present participle of descale.
  • descanted — Simple past tense and past participle of descant.
  • descartes — René (rəne). 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician. He provided a mechanistic basis for the philosophical theory of dualism and is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. He also founded analytical geometry and contributed greatly to the science of optics. His works include Discours de la méthode (1637), Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1641), and Principia Philosophiae (1644)

10 letter words starting with des

  • desalinate — to remove the salt from (esp from sea water)
  • desalinize — desalt.
  • desalivate — to arrest the flow of saliva in (a human or other animal).
  • desaturase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of single to double bonds, especially in the production of essential fatty acids.
  • desaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.

11 letter words starting with des

  • desacralize — to render less sacred; to secularize
  • desalinated — Simple past tense and past participle of desalinate.
  • desalinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desalinate.
  • desalinator — an apparatus used in the process of desalination
  • desalinized — Simple past tense and past participle of desalinize.

12 letter words starting with des

  • desacralized — Simple past tense and past participle of desacralize.
  • desacralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desacralize.
  • desalinating — Present participle of desalinate.
  • desalination — Desalination is the process of removing salt from sea water so that it can be used for drinking, or for watering crops.
  • desalinizing — Present participle of desalinize.

13 letter words starting with des

  • desacralizing — Present participle of desacralize.
  • descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
  • descriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of descriptive grammar or descriptive linguistics.
  • descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.

14 letter words starting with des

15 letter words starting with des

  • desacralization — the process of rendering anything less sacred; secularization
  • describableness — The quality of being describable.
  • descriptionless — Without a description.
  • descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • desensitisation — The act or process of desensitising, of dulling or reducing sensation.

16 letter words starting with des

17 letter words starting with des

  • desoxyribonucleic — Alternative spelling of deoxyribonucleic.
  • desynchronisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of desynchronization.
  • desynchronization — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.

On this page, we collect all words starting with DES. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 627 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with DES. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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