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)
- descended — A person who is descended from someone who lived a long time ago is directly related to them.
- descender — a person or thing that descends
- deschamps — Émile (French emil), full name Émile Deschamps de Saint-Armand. 1791–1871, French poet, dramatist, and librettist: a leading figure in the French romantic movement
- deschutes — river in central and N Oreg., flowing from the Cascade Range north into the Columbia River: c. 250 mi (402 km)
- described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- describer — A person who describes.
- describes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of describe.
- descrying — Present participle of descry.
- desdemona — (in Shakespeare's Othello) Othello's wife, murdered by her husband as a result of jealousy instilled by Iago.
- desecrate — If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it.
- deserters — Plural form of deserter.
- desertify — to (cause to) become a desert
- deserting — Present participle of desert.
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- deserving — If you describe a person, organization, or cause as deserving, you mean that you think they should be helped.
- deshelled — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- deshuffle — (signal processing) To restore shuffled data to its original ordered state.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
- desideria — an ardent longing, as for something lost.
- designate — When you designate someone as something, you formally choose them to do that particular job.
- designees — a person selected or designated to carry out a duty or role: If the judge is unavailable, his designee will hear the case.
- designers — Plural form of designer.
- designful — full of design or intention
- designing — artful and scheming; conniving; crafty
- desilting — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- desinence — an ending or termination, esp an inflectional ending of a word
- desipient — silly; foolish
- desirable — Something that is desirable is worth having or doing because it is useful, necessary, or popular.
- desirably — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- desireful — Filled with desire; eager.
- desisting — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desitions — Plural form of desition.
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- desk-size — of a size suitable for use on a desk: a desk-size dictionary.
- deskbound — doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
- deskfasts — Plural form of deskfast.
- deskilled — Simple past tense and past participle of deskill.
- deskinned — Simple past tense and past participle of deskin.
- desmodium — a genus of flowering plant, with usually unobtrusive flowers; many members are considered weeds, such as the beggarweed (Desmodium tortuosum)
- desmosome — a structure in the cell membranes of adjacent cells that binds them together
- desoeuvre — with nothing to do
- desolated — wretched or forlorn
- desolater — One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste.
- desolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desolate.
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