11-letter words containing d, e, p, r, i
- 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.
- dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
- diopsimeter — an instrument for measuring the field of vision.
- dioptometer — an instrument for measuring the refraction of the eye.
- diphtheroid — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- 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.
- dipterocarp — A tall forest tree from which are obtained resins and timber for the export trade, occurring mainly in Southeast Asia.
- dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
- dirty power — Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, drop-outs, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively known as power hits).
- disapparate — To disappear (magically).
- disappeared — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.
- disapprover — One who disapproves.
- disapproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disapprove.
- disceptator — a person who disputes or disagrees
- discerpible — Capable of being discerped.
- discerption — The action of pulling something apart.
- discerptive — capable of being discerped
- discipliner — Agent noun of discipline: one who disciplines.
- discrepance — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- discrepancy — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
- disempowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disempower.
- disparately — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparities — Plural form of disparity.
- dispatchers — Plural form of dispatcher.
- dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
- dispersants — Plural form of dispersant.
- dispersedly — In a dispersed manner; in a scattered way, here and there.
- dispersible — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
- dispersions — Plural form of dispersion.
- displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
- disportment — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disproperty — to deprive of property
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disprovided — Simple past tense and past participle of disprovide.
- disrespects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrespect.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- disspirited — dispirit.
- distempered — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- diterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C20 skeleton.
- do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
- dotted pair — (programming) The usual LISP syntax for representing a cons cell that is not a list. For example, the expression (cons 'foo 42) returns a cons cell that is output as (foo . 42) which represents a cons cell whose car is the symbol "foo" and whose cdr is the integer 42.
- drawing pen — a pen with a fine nib used for drawing
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- drill press — a drilling machine having a single vertical spindle.
- drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
- drop a line — send a message
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.