10-letter words containing d, i, e, l
- old bailey — the main criminal court of London, England.
- old permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- oleic acid — a colorless, odorless, liquid, water-insoluble, unsaturated acid, C 1 8 H 3 4 O 2 , obtained from animal tallow and natural vegetable oils, in which it occurs as the glycerol ester: used chiefly in the manufacture of soap, commercial oleates, and cosmetics.
- olive drab — a deep olive color.
- olive wood — olive (def 3).
- one-tailed — (of a significance test) concerned with the hypothesis that an observed value of a sampling statistic either significantly exceeds or falls significantly below a given value, where the error is relevant only in one direction: for instance, in testing whether scales are fair a customer does not regard overweight goods as a relevant error
- open field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
- open-field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
- ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
- orchidlike — Resembling an orchid or some aspect of one.
- ordainable — able to be ordained
- ordinately — in an ordered manner
- oscillated — Simple past tense and past participle of oscillate.
- outdeliver — to surpass or outdo in delivery
- outfielder — one of the players, especially in baseball, stationed in the outfield.
- outrivaled — Simple past tense and past participle of outrival.
- oxidizable — able to be oxidized
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- palletized — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- panellized — made in sections for quick assembly
- papillated — having papillae
- paradiddle — an exercise or sequence performed typically on the snare drum, marked by four basic beats with alternation of the right hand and left hand on successive strong beats, and begun and ended slowly with a dramatic increase in tempo in the middle.
- paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
- pareidolia — the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features
- peccadillo — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
- pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
- pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
- pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pedophilia — sexual desire in an adult for a child.
- pedophilic — pedophile.
- pelletised — to make or form (concentrated ore) into pellets.
- pendelikon — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: noted for its fine marble. 3640 feet (1110 meters).
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- peridental — periodontal.
- periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- perlucidus — (of a cloud) having transparent spaces between the elements.
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pileolated — pileated.
- pin-tailed — having a tapered tail with long, pointed central feathers.
- pipex ltd. — UUNET PIPEX
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- pistillode — a sterile pistil, or one with a simple structure and reduced size and function
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.