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10-letter words containing d, o, p, l

  • double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
  • double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
  • double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
  • double top — a score of double 20
  • double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
  • downplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of downplay.
  • droopingly — In a drooping manner.
  • drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
  • drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
  • drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
  • drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
  • drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
  • drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
  • drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
  • droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
  • dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
  • drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
  • duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
  • dyalog apl — (language)   Arguably the current (2001) market-leading implementation of APL, from Dyalog Limited. Dyalog APL runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000; and several popular UNIX systems including Linux. Dyalog APL complies with ISO 8485 and has many features that make it good for complex GUI applications. Dyalog APL was introduced in 1983 and is currently (2002) in active development.
  • edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
  • ellipsoids — Plural form of ellipsoid.
  • empedocles — ?490–430 bc, Greek philosopher and scientist, who held that the world is composed of four elements, air, fire, earth, and water, which are governed by the opposing forces of love and discord
  • endopelvic — (anatomy) Within the pelvis.
  • endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
  • epicondyle — (anatomy) A protuberance above the condyle of a bone to which ligaments or tendons are attached.
  • epicycloid — A curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle rolling on the exterior of another circle.
  • epileptoid — resembling epilepsy
  • false pond — a mirage.
  • 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.
  • filopodium — a long, hairlike pseudopod composed of ectoplasm.
  • flapdoodle — nonsense; bosh.
  • flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • flood lamp — a floodlight.
  • floodlamps — Plural form of floodlamp.
  • floodplain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
  • flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
  • foodophile — (informal) A food lover.
  • gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
  • 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.
  • glyptodont — any edentate mammal of the extinct genus Glyptodon, of the Pleistocene Epoch, having the body covered by a horny and bony armor.
  • gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
  • 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.
  • gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
  • goldplated — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
  • groundplot — Aeronautics. a method for obtaining the position of an aircraft by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and marking off the product with respect to its starting position.
  • guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
  • half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
  • hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
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