Words Containing DES

There are over 2.4K words with the letters DES in English. From short DES-words to long ones, find all the words that have DES in it grouped by length, each valid in Scrabble, Wordle, and Words With Friends. You can also see five letter words with DES.

4-Letter Words With DES

Common 4-letter DES-words:

desh

desi

desk

ides

odes

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5-Letter Words With DES

Common 5-letter DES-words:

sides

codes

modes

nodes

bedes

bydes

cides

deshi

desis

fades

gades

hades

kades

lades

nudes

ondes

rides

rodes

tides

wades

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6-Letter Words With DES

Common 6-letter DES-words:

design

oldest

desire

desert

modest

grades

eldest

blades

guides

azides

bludes

desalt

deshis

desyne

diodes

etudes

hyndes

kyndes

snides

swedes

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169

7-Letter Words With DES

Common 7-letter DES-words:

despite

decades

designs

desired

destroy

descent

decides

desktop

goddess

desires

divides

besides

bejades

coldest

deludes

desexed

desnood

eldests

middest

tirades

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305

8-Letter Words With DES

Common 8-letter DES-words:

designed

includes

provides

describe

episodes

designer

brigades

upgrades

alcaydes

andesine

biocides

broadest

collides

estrades

geodesic

lividest

nakedest

newsdesk

secondes

topsides

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374

9-Letter Words With DES

Common 9-letter DES-words:

described

describes

destroyed

desirable

designers

descended

attitudes

concludes

designing

altitudes

desperate

latitudes

autocades

coincides

despising

dissuades

hemipodes

minisodes

palisades

selenides

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409

10-Letter Words With DES

Common 10-letter DES-words:

widespread

designated

describing

destroying

destroyers

blessedest

bridesmaid

celsitudes

creeksides

deschooler

designment

desipience

desoldered

dessiatine

embassades

invalidest

overgrades

sclereides

tetroxides

uxoricides

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332

11-Letter Words With DES

Common 11-letter DES-words:

description

destruction

destination

descendants

designation

destructive

descriptive

clandestine

descendable

descendible

descrambled

desiccators

despondency

indapamides

intercludes

mazarinades

nondescript

profoundest

redesigning

similitudes

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247

12-Letter Words With DES

Common 12-letter DES-words:

descriptions

destinations

acetanilides

desaturation

deselections

desiccatives

despiteously

despondences

dessertspoon

destructions

fibrositides

laryngitides

mispersuades

overmodestly

polypeptides

senectitudes

stomatitides

sulfonamides

tyrannicides

vicissitudes

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170

13-Letter Words With DES

Common 13-letter DES-words:

benzaldehydes

desanctifying

desertisation

desilverising

desirableness

destituteness

desulfurising

desulfurizers

desulphuriser

desulphurises

endoperoxides

incandescence

monochlorides

plasmodesmata

polysulphides

predestinates

thyroiditides

undescribable

undeservingly

zantedeschias

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108

14-Letter Words With DES

Common 14-letter DES-words:

antidesiccants

appendicitides

condescendence

desalinization

descriptivisms

despisednesses

despitefulness

destigmatizing

desulfurations

dissimilitudes

gelandesprungs

lymphangitides

nonclandestine

overmultitudes

pedestrianized

pedestrianizes

polymyositides

recrudescences

sansculottides

trinucleotides

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15-Letter Words With DES

Common 15-letter DES-words:

autodestructing

clandestineness

clandestinities

desacralization

descriptiveness

desirablenesses

despicabilities

despiritualised

despiritualized

destitutenesses

destructivities

desulfurization

endoradiosondes

enterocolitides

metoclopramides

mononucleotides

multielectrodes

pedestrianising

pedestrianizing

polyarthritides

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2,351 Common Words with DES

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What is the highest scoring word in
Scrabble that contains DES?

34 Points

The highest scoring word in Scrabble that contains DES is cycloheximides with a total of 34 points.

C 3

Y 4

C 3

L 1

O 1

H 4

E 1

X 8

I 1

M 3

I 1

D 2

E 1

S 1

A list of all DES words with their Scrabble and Words with Friends points. You can also find a list of all words that start with DES. Also commonly searched for are words that end in DES. Try our five letter words with DES page if you’re playing Wordle-like games or use the New York Times Wordle Solver for finding the NYT Wordle daily answer.

FAQ Words With Letters DES

How many words containing DES are in the English dictionary?

There are 2,351 words in the English dictionary that contain DES, and most of them are 10 letters long (409 words of that length).
What's the longest word containing DES?

The longest word containing DES is "descriptiveness" at 15 letters long. If you're looking for a more everyday word, "descriptions" is the longest common word containing DES.
Are there any rare words containing DES worth more in Scrabble?

Yes. Uncommon words like "desexualization", "desexualize", "desexualized", "desexualizing" contain DES and can score big thanks to their unusual letters. "desexualization" is worth 32 points in Scrabble before any bonus tiles.
What are the most common words containing DES?

Most words containing DES are 10 letters long, including everyday words like "widespread", "designated", "describing", "destroying", "destroyers".