10-letter words starting with d
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debonnaire — courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm: a debonair gentleman.
- debouching — Present participle of debouche.
- debriefing — A debriefing is a meeting where someone such as a soldier, diplomat, or astronaut is asked to give a report on an operation or task that they have just completed.
- debris bug — a bug of the family Cimicidae found where vegetable debris accumulates and feeding on small arthropods like springtails: related to the bedbugs
- debt issue — a fixed corporate obligation, as a bond or debenture.
- debt limit — (in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government.
- debt-laden — having large debts
- debtholder — (finance) An owner of a financial obligation of another party.
- debutantes — Plural form of debutante.
- decaborane — (inorganic compound) The stable borane B10H14.
- decadelong — lasting for a decade: After a decadelong study, the drug has finally been approved by the FDA.
- decadently — In a decadent manner.
- decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
- decagramme — ten grammes
- decagynian — having ten pistils or female organs of reproduction and belonging to the order Decagynia
- decahedron — a solid figure having ten plane faces
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decameters — Plural form of decameter.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decandrian — having or characterized by ten stamens or male organs in flowers
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- decastyles — Plural form of decastyle.
- decastylos — a decastyle building, as a classical temple.
- decathexis — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.
- decathlete — a participant in a decathlon
- decathlons — Plural form of decathlon.
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decay-rate — the reciprocal of the decay time.
- deceased's — no longer living; dead.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceitfull — Archaic form of deceitful.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- deceivings — Plural form of deceiving.
- decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
- decembrist — a participant in the unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicolas I in Dec 1825
- decennials — Plural form of decennial.
- decennoval — relating to nineteen
- decentered — to put out of center.
- decentring — to put out of center.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deceptible — capable of being deceived
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- decidingly — that settles a question or dispute or leads to a final decision; determining; decisive: the deciding vote; The weather will be the deciding factor as to whether we have the picnic or not.