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11-letter words containing a, l, c, e

  • dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
  • 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.
  • discalceate — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
  • 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.
  • disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
  • discussable — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • disgraceful — bringing or deserving disgrace; shameful; dishonorable; disreputable.
  • dissociable — capable of being dissociated; separable: Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.
  • divellicate — to separate; pull apart
  • 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.
  • dodecagonal — Having twelve sides and twelve angles.
  • dodecastyle — having 12 columns.
  • domiciliate — to domicile.
  • doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
  • doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
  • double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
  • dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
  • dry cleaner — a business that dry-cleans garments, draperies, etc.
  • dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
  • duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
  • duffel coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
  • duffle coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
  • duncanville — a town in N Texas.
  • duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
  • duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
  • duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
  • dutch metal — an alloy of copper and zinc in the form of thin sheets, used as an imitation of gold leaf.
  • dyspeptical — (archaic) dyspeptic.
  • eagle scout — a boy scout who has achieved the highest rank in U.S. scouting.
  • early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
  • earth-color — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
  • ecblastesis — a condition of flower production in plants in which buds occur within flowers and thereby produce extremely large blooms
  • eccaleobion — a type of equipment that provides warmth used to assist in the hatching of eggs
  • eccentrical — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
  • eccles cake — a pastry with a filling of dried fruit
  • ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
  • echolocated — Simple past tense and past participle of echolocate.
  • echolocator — An organism capable of echolocation.
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