15-Letter Words Ending: DES

• a diuretic drug (trade name Diuril) used in the treatment of edema and hypertension

• a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars

• any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules

• a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates

• peptide released from the amino end of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin to form fibrin during clotting of the blood