10-letter words containing d, i, l
- dark slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- dash light — a light to illuminate a dashboard in a motor vehicle
- daugavpils — a city in SE Latvia on the Western Dvina River: founded in 1274 by Teutonic Knights; ruled by Poland (1559–1772) and Russia (1772–1915); retaken by the Russians in 1940. Pop: 112 609 (2002 est)
- dauntingly — In a daunting manner.
- day sailer — a small sailboat without sleeping accommodations, suitable for short trips.
- dazzlingly — to overpower or dim the vision of by intense light: He was dazzled by the sudden sunlight.
- de broglie — Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
- de-isolate — to remove from isolation.
- de-license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- de-linking — to make independent; dissociate; separate: The administration has delinked human rights from economic aid to underdeveloped nations.
- deadliness — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlining — Present participle of deadline.
- deaf-blind — of or relating to a person who is both deaf and blind.
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- debilities — Plural form of debility.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- debt limit — (in public finance) the legal maximum debt permitted a municipal, state, or national government.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceitfull — Archaic form of deceitful.
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decennials — Plural form of decennial.
- deceptible — capable of being deceived
- decidingly — that settles a question or dispute or leads to a final decision; determining; decisive: the deciding vote; The weather will be the deciding factor as to whether we have the picnic or not.
- deciliters — Plural form of deciliter.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- decisional — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- decisively — having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important: Your argument was the decisive one.
- decivilize — to cause (a person) to be uncivilized
- deck light — a skylight for a 'tween deck, built flush with the upper deck.
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- declension — the inflection of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives for case, number, and gender
- declinable — that can be declined; having case inflections
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- declotting — a mass or lump.
- decoctible — capable of being decocted