Words Containing DES

There are over 2.2K 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:

desi

desk

ides

odes

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5-Letter Words With DES

Common 5-letter DES-words:

sides

codes

modes

nodes

bides

cides

fades

hides

kades

lades

ledes

ludes

nides

nudes

pedes

rides

rodes

sedes

vades

wides

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6-Letter Words With DES

Common 6-letter DES-words:

design

oldest

desire

desert

modest

grades

eldest

blades

guides

abides

amides

chides

desist

evades

hordes

irades

mondes

slides

spades

teades

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165

7-Letter Words With DES

Common 7-letter DES-words:

despite

decades

designs

desired

destroy

descent

decides

desktop

goddess

desires

divides

besides

auldest

childes

deseeds

despond

heredes

hexades

noyades

wildest

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301

8-Letter Words With DES

Common 8-letter DES-words:

designed

includes

provides

describe

episodes

designer

brigades

upgrades

andesine

blandest

cestodes

concedes

corrodes

desugars

gudesire

hagrides

pedestal

pervades

spinodes

topsides

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365

9-Letter Words With DES

Common 9-letter DES-words:

described

describes

destroyed

desirable

designers

descended

attitudes

concludes

designing

altitudes

desperate

latitudes

adessives

bombardes

chromides

ileitides

kingsides

ruggedest

sideslips

thiazides

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388

10-Letter Words With DES

Common 10-letter DES-words:

widespread

designated

describing

destroying

destroyers

assuetudes

biguanides

caryatides

damnedests

desilvered

despicably

downgrades

druidesses

millepedes

multitudes

overmodest

overshades

parricides

recrudesce

snowslides

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299

11-Letter Words With DES

Common 11-letter DES-words:

description

destruction

destination

descendants

designation

destructive

descriptive

balustrades

desertifies

deshabilles

despatching

destabilize

desultorily

doggonedest

dragonnades

furanosides

isocyanides

overstrides

silversides

sororicides

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224

12-Letter Words With DES

Common 12-letter DES-words:

descriptions

destinations

desacralises

descrambling

desertifying

desilverises

desilverizes

despisements

destabilised

destabilizer

goddesshoods

liberticides

metaldehydes

midlatitudes

mispersuades

mucopeptides

predestinate

sesquioxides

undesignated

zantedeschia

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152

13-Letter Words With DES

Common 13-letter DES-words:

demigoddesses

descriptively

descriptivist

deservingness

desoxyriboses

destabilising

destructivity

desulfurisers

desulphurizer

desultoriness

dinucleotides

disaccharides

formaldehydes

gelandesprung

lapidescences

methysergides

pedestrianize

radionuclides

recrudescence

spermatocides

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14-Letter Words With DES

Common 14-letter DES-words:

butyraldehydes

cyanogenamides

deservednesses

desirabilities

desobligeantes

despicableness

despoticalness

despotocracies

desulphurating

desulphurisers

desulphurising

overmultitudes

pedestrianisms

pedestrianizes

pericarditides

predesignation

predestinarian

recrudescences

tetrachlorides

undesirability

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15-Letter Words With DES

Common 15-letter DES-words:

chlamydomonades

chlorothiazides

desacralisation

desensitization

desexualisation

desirablenesses

despicabilities

dessertspoonful

destabilisation

destabilization

desulfurization

desultorinesses

microelectrodes

pedestrianising

polyarthritides

polynucleotides

recrudescencies

ribonucleotides

sesquisulphides

trichomonacides

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2,209 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 2,209 words in the English dictionary that contain DES, and most of them are 10 letters long (388 words of that length).
What's the longest word containing DES?

The longest word containing DES is "chlamydomonades" 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".