11-letter words containing d, o, t, l, e
- despoilment — The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- desultorily — lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- development — Development is the gradual growth or formation of something.
- devolvement — to transfer or delegate (a duty, responsibility, etc.) to or upon another; pass on.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- dexterously — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- dicotyledon — any flowering plant of the class Dicotyledonae, normally having two embryonic seed leaves and leaves with netlike veins. The group includes many herbaceous plants and most families of trees and shrubs
- dictyostele — a form of stele found in some ferns, containing so many gaps that it is like a network of separate strands
- digestional — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dimentional — Misspelling of dimensional.
- diotheletic — relating to diothelism
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- diplomatize — to use diplomacy or tact.
- 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.
- disc floret — any of the small tubular flowers at the centre of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- dishonestly — In a dishonest manner.
- dislodgment — Alternative form of dislodgement.
- disrelation — the absence of relation
- dissolutely — In a dissolute manner.
- distortedly — In a distorted way.
- dodecastyle — having 12 columns.
- dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- doggy style — of sexual intercourse, a position whereby the female is on all fours and the male is behind her
- dollar rate — a variable amount of foreign currency quoted against one unit of the US Dollar
- dolorimeter — an instrument used in dolorimetry.
- dolorimetry — a technique for measuring the sensitivity to pain produced by heat rays focused on an area of skin and recorded in dols.
- doltishness — The characteristic of being doltish.
- domiciliate — to domicile.
- 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.
- dotted line — a line on a contract or similar document for a party's signature.
- 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 duty — designed to fill two functions: double-duty tools.
- 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 knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
- 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.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.