10-letter words starting with des
- desipience — folly; silliness
- desirables — Plural form of desirable.
- desireable — Archaic form of desirable.
- desireless — without desire; having no longings
- desirement — (nonstandard) something that is desired, but not absolutely required.
- desirously — With desire; eagerly.
- desistance — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desistence — to cease, as from some action or proceeding; stop.
- desk check — (programming) To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow; a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers - though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be. Compare dry run, eyeball search, vdiff, vgrep.
- desk clerk — A desk clerk is someone who works at the main desk in a hotel.
- desk study — a preliminary investigation and report into something collating currently available relevant information
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- deskilling — Present participle of deskill.
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- desludging — mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
- desmosomal — of or relating to desmosomes
- desmosomes — Plural form of desmosome.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator
- desolately — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
- desolating — Present participle of desolate.
- desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- desolatory — tending to cause desolation
- désorienté — having lost one's bearings; confused
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despairing — marked by or resulting from despair; hopeless or desperate
- despatched — Simple past tense and past participle of despatch.
- despatcher — Alternative form of dispatcher.
- despatches — Plural form of despatch.
- despawning — Present participle of despawn.
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- despective — Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
- desperados — Plural form of desperado.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- despiteous — malicious; spiteful.
- despoilers — Plural form of despoiler.
- despoiling — plundering by force
- despondent — If you are despondent, you are very unhappy because you have been experiencing difficulties that you think you will not be able to overcome.
- desponding — to be depressed by loss of hope, confidence, or courage.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotisms — Plural form of despotism.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- desquamate — (esp of the skin in certain diseases) to peel or come off in scales
- dessalines — Jean-Jacques (ʒɑ̃ ʒɑk). ?1758–1806, emperor of Haiti (1804–06) after driving out the French; assassinated
- dessiatina — A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.
- dessiatine — a Russian unit of area equal to approximately 2.7 acres or 10 800 square metres
- dessicated — Misspelling of desiccated.