10-letter words starting with des
- des moines — a city in S central Iowa: state capital. Pop: 196 093 (2003 est)
- 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.
- descendant — Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
- descendent — coming or going downwards; descending
- descenders — Plural form of descender.
- descendeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of descend.
- descendeur — a shaped metal piece through which the rope can be fed: used to control the rate of descent in abseiling
- descending — When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it.
- descension — the action of descending; descent
- deschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of deschool.
- deschooler — an advocate of deschooling
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- descriable — Capable of being descried (detected or perceived).
- describent — (geometry) A generatrix.
- describers — Plural form of describer.
- describing — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desecrated — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- desecrater — One who desecrates.
- desecrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desecrate.
- desecrator — to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
- deselected — Simple past tense and past participle of deselect.
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- desert pea — an Australian trailing leguminous plant, Clianthus formosus, with scarlet flowers
- desert rat — a jerboa, Jaculus orientalis, inhabiting the deserts of N Africa
- desertions — Plural form of desertion.
- desertless — undeserving, meritless
- desertlike — a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: The Sahara is a vast sandy desert. Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
- deservedly — You use deservedly to indicate that someone deserved what happened to them, especially when it was something good.
- deshabille — the state of being partly or carelessly dressed
- deshelling — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- desiccants — Plural form of desiccant.
- desiccated — Desiccated things have lost all the moisture that was in them.
- desiccates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desiccate.
- desiccator — any apparatus for drying milk, fruit, etc
- desiderata — something wanted or needed.
- desiderate — to feel the lack of or need for; long for; miss
- desiderium — a powerful desire or yearning, especially for something once had
- designated — (of a truth value) corresponding to truth in a two-valued logic, or having one of the analogous values in a many-valued logic
- designates — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- designator — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- designedly — by intention or design; on purpose; deliberately
- designless — without a design, unplanned
- designment — designation, design
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