10-letter words containing d, i, l, p
- explicated — Simple past tense and past participle of explicate.
- 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).
- filopodium — a long, hairlike pseudopod composed of ectoplasm.
- fissipedal — (zoology) Being or relating to a fissiped.
- fittipaldi — Emerson. born 1946, Brazilian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion (1972,1974)
- floodplain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- foodophile — (informal) A food lover.
- 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.
- glycolipid — any of a class of lipids, comprising the cerebrosides and gangliosides, that upon hydrolysis yield galactose or a similar sugar, a fatty acid, and sphingosine or dihydrosphingosine.
- gold point — the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- hydrophile — (chemistry) Any hydrophilic substance.
- 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.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- 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
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- 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.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- laid paper — paper with fine parallel and cross lines produced in manufacturing.
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- lapidarian — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- lapidified — Simple past tense and past participle of lapidify.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- lead paint — paint containing lead
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leopold ii — 1747–92, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1790–92 (son of Francis I; brother of Joseph II and Marie Antoinette).
- lepidolite — a mineral of the mica group, potassium lithium aluminum silicate, commonly occurring in lilac, rose-colored, or whitish scaly masses: an ore of lithium.
- lightspeed — The speed of light.