9-letter words containing a, p, l
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- dapatical — (obsolete) sumptuous in cheer.
- dasypygal — (nonce) Having hairy buttocks.
- date palm — A date palm is a palm tree on which dates grow.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- davy lamp — an early safety lamp for miners, in which the flame was enclosed by wire gauze as a protection against firedamp
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decapodal — (zoology) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- deep-laid — (of a plot or plan) carefully worked out and kept secret
- delphinia — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- depilated — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- deplanate — (botany) flattened; made level or even.
- deplaning — Present participle of deplane.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- deputable — able to be deputed
- dew plant — sundew.
- dewlapped — Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).
- dip fault — a fault that runs perpendicular to the strike of the affected rocks (i.e. parallel to the plane of the angle of dip of the rocks)
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- diplomaed — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- diplomata — Plural form of diploma.
- diplomate — a person who has received a diploma, especially a doctor, engineer, etc., who has been certified as a specialist by a board within the appropriate profession.
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
- displaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displace.
- displayed — (of a bird) represented with wings and legs spread: an eagle displayed.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
- disposals — Plural form of disposal.
- disproval — The act of disproving; disproof.
- doom palm — an African fan palm, Hyphaene thebaica, bearing an edible, gingerbread-flavored fruit.
- doorplate — a small identification plate on the outside door of a house or room, bearing the occupant's name, the apartment or house number, or the like.
- doum palm — doom palm.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- drainplug — A plug for a drain.
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drop goal — In rugby, a drop goal is a goal that a player scores by dropping the ball and kicking it between the posts.
- drop leaf — a hinged leaf attached to the end or side of a table that can be raised to extend the tabletop or folded vertically downward when not in use.
- droppable — Capable of being dropped (especially by an aircraft).
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.
- duplicand — the twofold increase of feu-duty for the period of a year, or the feu-duty paid, as occasioned at specific times
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.