11-letter words containing d, o, l, a
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
- disallowing — Present participle of disallow.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- discifloral — having flowers in which the receptacle is expanded into a conspicuous disk, as in composite plants.
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- dislocating — Present participle of dislocate.
- dislocation — an act or instance of dislocating.
- disposables — Plural form of disposable.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disrelation — the absence of relation
- dissociable — capable of being dissociated; separable: Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- dissonantly — In a dissonant manner.
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- divulgation — to make publicly known; publish.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- doctrinally — of, relating to, or concerned with doctrine: a doctrinal dispute.
- dodecagonal — Having twelve sides and twelve angles.
- dodecastyle — having 12 columns.
- dog handler — a member of the police force, a security organization, etc, who works in collaboration with a specially trained dog
- dogmatology — the study and science of religious dogma
- dolabriform — shaped like an ax or a cleaver.
- doll's pram — toy: miniature baby carriage
- dollar area — those countries among which trade is conducted in U.S. dollars or in freely convertible currencies.
- dollar bill — a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- dollar rate — a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
- dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
- domiciliary — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
- domiciliate — to domicile.
- doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
- door handle — doorknob.
- dorsal root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- dorsispinal — of or relating to the back and the spine.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- dot leaders — (text) A row of full stops intended to guide the reader's eye across the page from a column of variable length items on the left to the corresponding items in a column on the right. Used, for example, in the contents page of a book to tie a heading on the left to its page number on the right.
- douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
- double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- double date — two couples meeting socially
- double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.