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11-letter words containing a, d, e, r, l

  • die walküre — an opera by Wagner (1870), one of four in a cycle based on the German myth of the Ring of the Nibelung
  • dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
  • dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
  • dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
  • dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
  • dinner lady — female cook in school canteen
  • dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
  • diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
  • diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
  • direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
  • direct-dial — being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
  • directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
  • directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
  • dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
  • disannuller — a person who disannuls
  • disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
  • discardable — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
  • discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
  • disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
  • discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
  • disenthrall — to free from bondage; liberate: to be disenthralled from morbid fantasies.
  • disentrayle — to pass out as if from the entrails
  • disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
  • dish aerial — a microwave aerial, used esp in radar, radio telescopes, and satellite broadcasting, consisting of a parabolic reflector
  • disparately — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
  • displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.
  • disrelation — the absence of relation
  • disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
  • diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
  • diverticula — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
  • dixielander — a musician specializing in Dixieland jazz.
  • dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
  • dollar area — those countries among which trade is conducted in U.S. dollars or in freely convertible currencies.
  • dollar rate — a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
  • door handle — doorknob.
  • dot leaders — (text)   A row of full stops intended to guide the reader's eye across the page from a column of variable length items on the left to the corresponding items in a column on the right. Used, for example, in the contents page of a book to tie a heading on the left to its page number on the right.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • downloaders — Plural form of downloader.
  • dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
  • draw a line — If you draw a line between two things, you make a distinction between them.
  • dreadlessly — in a dreadless manner
  • dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
  • dream world — the world of imagination or illusion rather than of objective reality.
  • dreamlessly — In a dreamless way; without dreams.
  • drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
  • drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
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