10-Letter Words That Start With: DEA

• minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers

• bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death

• remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination

• at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions

• Unremitting heavy weight that does not move.

• The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty.

• Dead load.

• That which is useless or excess; that which slows something down.

• the blow that kills (usually mercifully)

• To admit to a performance without charge.

• To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.

• To drive an empty vehicle.

• To send (a person or message) for free.

• To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.

• A deep-sea ribbonfish, Trachipterus arcticus, from the north Atlantic

• a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area

• remove from active military status or reassign

• make inactive