10-letter words containing d, e, p, l
- expendable — (of an object) Designed to be used only once and then abandoned or destroyed.
- explananda — Plural form of explanandum.
- explicated — Simple past tense and past participle of explicate.
- false pond — a mirage.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- field stop — the aperture that limits the field of view of a lens or system of lenses.
- field trip — a trip by students to gain firsthand knowledge away from the classroom, as to a museum, factory, geological area, or environment of certain plants and animals.
- fieldpiece — A mobile artillery piece, i.e. gun or howitzer, for use in the field.
- fieldstrip — To disassemble a weapon for cleaning, oiling or repair.
- film speed — speed (def 5a).
- fissipedal — (zoology) Being or relating to a fissiped.
- flapdoodle — nonsense; bosh.
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- foodophile — (informal) A food lover.
- full speed — the maximum speed.
- gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
- glammed up — made to look more glamorous
- glen plaid — a plaid pattern of muted colors or of black or gray and white, especially one in which two dark and two light stripes alternate with four dark and four light stripes, both vertically and horizontally, forming a crossing pattern of irregular checks.
- gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
- gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- goldplated — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- hard maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- hedgeapple — Alternate name for the fruit of the osage orange tree, also known as the hedge tree.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hyperploid — having a chromosome number that is greater than but not a multiple of the diploid number.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
- idle speed — engine's slowest speed
- impanelled — Simple past tense and past participle of impanel.
- imperdible — (obsolete) Not destructible.
- imperilled — to put in peril or danger; endanger.
- impleading — to sue in a court of law.
- implicated — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- impudently — of, relating to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery: The student was kept late for impudent behavior.
- inculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of inculpate.
- indophenol — a quinonimine derivative that is the parent substance of the blue and green indophenol dyes.
- interloped — Simple past tense and past participle of interlope.
- interplead — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- intrepidly — In an intrepid manner; fearlessly; daringly; resolutely.
- jade plant — a succulent shrub, Crassula argentea, of the stonecrop family, native to southern Africa, having fleshy, oval leaves, often grown as a houseplant.
- jump leads — Jump leads are two thick wires that can be used to start a car when its battery does not have enough power. The jump leads are used to connect the battery to the battery of another car that is working properly.
- lady apple — a small, yellow apple with a red blush, grown as a specialty variety, and used for eating and in commercial canning.
- lagered-up — intoxicated, esp after drinking lager