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11-letter words containing d, o, p, l, e

  • despoilment — The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
  • developable — Able to be developed, in particular.
  • development — Development is the gradual growth or formation of something.
  • diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
  • dicephalous — having two heads
  • dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
  • diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
  • diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
  • diplomatize — to use diplomacy or tact.
  • dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
  • disemployed — Simple past tense and past participle of disemploy.
  • dispeopling — Present participle of dispeople.
  • disposables — Plural form of disposable.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
  • double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • drop a line — send a message
  • drop letter — a letter that is mailed to a local address at a post office without city delivery or a rural delivery service and must be picked up by the addressee.
  • dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
  • duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
  • ellipsoidal — Alternative form of ellipsoid.
  • encephaloid — resembling the brain or brain matter
  • endoplasmic — (cytology) of, or relating to endoplasm.
  • epicycloids — Plural form of epicycloid.
  • epidemology — Misspelling of epidemiology.
  • epithelioid — Of, pertaining to, or resembling epithelium.
  • erysipeloid — an infective dermatitis mainly affecting the hands, characterized by inflammation and caused by the microorganism Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae on contaminated meat, poultry, or fish: most prevalent among fishermen and butchers
  • field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
  • file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
  • flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
  • flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
  • focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
  • food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
  • food pollen — infertile pollen produced by some plants that attracts insects and thus aids pollination
  • freedpeople — Plural form of freedperson.
  • funemployed — without a paid job but enjoying the free time: Ask one of your funemployed friends to come along with you.
  • glide slope — the angle that the glidepath of an aircraft or spacecraft makes with the horizontal.
  • god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
  • gold-plated — secure, valuable
  • good people — honest or kind people
  • gospel side — (in some Protestant churches) the left side of a church, facing the altar.
  • haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
  • heteroploid — (biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
  • holding-pen — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
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