11-letter words containing d, i, o, p
- c-odescript — (language) A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
- caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
- capernoited — capricious
- cappadocian — of or relating to Cappadocia or its inhabitants
- cardiograph — an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- cardiopathy — a heart disease or disorder
- cardiospasm — failure of the muscle fibers at the lower end of the esophagus to relax, resulting in swallowing difficulty and regurgitation.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- child-proof — resistant to being opened, tampered with, or operated by a child: a childproof medicine bottle.
- chiropodist — A chiropodist is a person whose job is to treat and care for people's feet.
- cladoptosis — the annual shedding of twigs or branches instead of leaves, as in certain cypresses.
- clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
- clopidogrel — An oral antiplatelet agent used to inhibit blood clots in coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and cerebrovascular disease, having the chemical formula C16H16ClNO2S.
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- companioned — Simple past tense and past participle of companion.
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
- complicated — If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
- compounding — the addition of interest on interest already earned or charged
- compromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- condisciple — a fellow disciple or a fellow student
- conscripted — enrolled for compulsory service, esp military service
- constipated — Someone who is constipated has difficulty in getting rid of solid waste from their body.
- coon rapids — a city in E Minnesota.
- copy editor — A copy editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- copyediting — Alternative spelling of copy editing.
- copyeditors — Plural form of copyeditor.
- copyrighted — Copyrighted material is protected by a copyright.
- cork-tipped — (of a cigarette) having a filter of cork or some material resembling cork
- coup d'oeil — a quick glance
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cryptorchid — an animal or human in which the testes fail to descend into the scrotum
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
- cyprinodont — any small tropical or subtropical soft-finned fish of the mostly marine family Cyprinodontidae, resembling carp but having toothed jaws. The group includes the guppy, killifish, swordtail, and topminnow
- damping off — any of various diseases of plants, esp the collapse and death of seedlings caused by the parasitic fungus Pythium debaryanum and related fungi in conditions of excessive moisture
- damping-off — a disease of seedlings, occurring either before or immediately after emerging from the soil, characterized by rotting of the stem at soil level and eventual collapse of the plant, caused by any of several soil fungi.
- decapitator — One who decapitates.
- decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.
- decomposing — Present participle of decompose.
- decomposite — a composite element that is itself composed of other elements
- deep-voiced — having a voice that is low in pitch: a deep-voiced young man.
- dehypnotize — to bring out of the hypnotic state
- demi-pointe — a position on the balls of the feet.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.