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

aedes

bedes

bydes

cades

desex

dudes

hades

lades

lodes

ludes

nudes

pedes

sedes

tides

wades

wides

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6-Letter Words With DES

Common 6-letter DES-words:

design

oldest

desire

desert

modest

grades

eldest

blades

guides

abodes

amides

crudes

descry

elides

epodes

glades

oddest

reedes

rondes

tsades

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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

acnodes

bejades

deseeds

desmans

destiny

destock

geodesy

parades

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301

8-Letter Words With DES

Common 8-letter DES-words:

designed

includes

provides

describe

episodes

designer

brigades

upgrades

bedesmen

biocides

debrides

desalted

descents

desktops

desugars

detrudes

gelidest

limeades

ovicides

syndeses

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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

desertion

despoiler

femicides

feticides

quietudes

regicides

stolidest

weaksides

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388

10-Letter Words With DES

Common 10-letter DES-words:

widespread

designated

describing

destroying

destroyers

autoguides

descendant

designedly

desorption

despisable

desugaring

fullerides

menticides

misdivides

osteitides

overtrades

phosphides

prolicides

recrudesce

sarabandes

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299

11-Letter Words With DES

Common 11-letter DES-words:

description

destruction

destination

descendants

designation

destructive

descriptive

acrylamides

demigoddess

deschoolers

deshabilles

desistences

destabilise

plasmodesma

recrudesced

remdesivirs

ridesharing

semideserts

undesigning

undesirable

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224

12-Letter Words With DES

Common 12-letter DES-words:

descriptions

destinations

desalinators

deschoolings

desexualises

desipramines

desolatingly

despairingly

despondently

desulphuring

ethionamides

gangliosides

misdescribes

proglottides

recrudescing

redescending

senectitudes

slickensides

tolbutamides

vicissitudes

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152

13-Letter Words With DES

Common 13-letter DES-words:

acetaldehydes

autodestructs

desiderations

desilverizing

despoliations

desquamations

destructivism

desulfurating

desulfurising

desulphurizes

incandescency

indescribably

inexactitudes

mastoiditides

mountainsides

overpersuades

pharyngitides

radionuclides

undescendible

zantedeschias

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14-Letter Words With DES

Common 14-letter DES-words:

condescendence

deservednesses

desobligeantes

despoticalness

desulphurisers

desulphurizers

dissimilitudes

gelandesprungs

incandescences

incandescently

nondestructive

overmultitudes

predestinating

predestinators

recrudescences

sulfanilamides

thiocarbamides

trinucleotides

trisaccharides

undesirability

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15-Letter Words With DES

Common 15-letter DES-words:

autodestructive

cholecystitides

crotonaldehydes

desacralisation

desirablenesses

desperatenesses

destabilization

destructivities

endoradiosondes

enterocolitides

fibrinopeptides

glutaraldehydes

microelectrodes

nondescriptness

pedestrianising

photoelectrodes

polynucleotides

predestinarians

ribonucleotides

verisimilitudes

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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 "nondescriptness" 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", "desexualizing", "desexualized" 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".