10-letter words containing a, l, p, e
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disapplied — Simple past tense and past participle of disapply.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- dispersals — Plural form of dispersal.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- displeased — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
- displeases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displease.
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- dissipable — capable of being dissipated
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- dog paddle — a simple swimming stroke in which the body is kept nearly upright, the arms paddle, and the legs move up and down as in running
- dog-paddle — to swim or keep afloat by use of the dog paddle.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- downplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of downplay.
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- eagle pass — a city in S Texas, on the Rio Grande.
- east islip — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- ecliptical — Astronomy. the great circle formed by the intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere; the apparent annual path of the sun in the heavens. an analogous great circle on a terrestrial globe.
- edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
- el capitan — a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m (3600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m (7564 ft)
- elaeoptene — eleoptene
- elecampane — A plant that has yellow daisylike flowers with long slender petals and bitter aromatic roots that are used in herbal medicine, native to central Asia.
- elliptical — (of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand.