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11-letter words containing a, r, t, l

  • dietary law — law dealing with foods permitted to be eaten, food preparation and combinations, and the utensils and dishes coming into contact with food.
  • digladiator — a person who contends or fights
  • dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
  • dilapidator — One who dilapidates, a person committing dilapidation.
  • dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
  • dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
  • dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • disparately — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
  • disregulate — Misspelling of dysregulate.
  • disrelation — the absence of relation
  • disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
  • distractful — (archaic) distracting.
  • 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.
  • divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
  • doctrinally — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
  • dollar rate — a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
  • dorsal root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
  • 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)
  • draftsmanly — Befitting a draftsman; geometrically artistic.
  • drapability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
  • drastically — acting with force or violence; violent.
  • drawability — the degree to which a metal can be drawn.
  • 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.
  • drivability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
  • dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
  • dysregulate — (biology) To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
  • early night — If you have an early night, you go to bed early. If you have a late night, you go to bed late.
  • earth lodge — a circular, usually dome-shaped dwelling of certain North American Indians, made of posts and beams covered variously with branches, grass, sod, or earth and having a central opening in the roof, a tamped earth floor, and frequently a vestibule.
  • 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.
  • earthliness — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
  • east berlin — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
  • easter lily — any of several white-flowered lilies that are artificially brought into bloom in early spring, especially Lilium longiflorum eximium, native to Taiwan and widely cultivated.
  • eccentrical — deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
  • echolocator — An organism capable of echolocation.
  • ectothermal — coldblooded (sense 1)
  • editorially — an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor.
  • edulcorated — Simple past tense and past participle of edulcorate.
  • edulcorator — a device that supplies small quantities of a liquid to a mixture
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