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12-letter words containing d, o, y, l, e

  • despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
  • detonability — the quality of being detonable
  • devotionally — In a devotional manner.
  • dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
  • dicotyledons — Plural form of dicotyledon.
  • dictyostelic — Of or possessing a dictyostele.
  • die horribly — (jargon)   The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".
  • dipsy-doodle — a quick dipping, sliding motion of the body, as made by ball carriers in football to evade tacklers.
  • dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
  • dirty blonde — woman's hair colour: dark blonde
  • disjointedly — In a disjointed manner.
  • dislocatedly — in a dislocated manner
  • disloyalness — The state or quality of being disloyal.
  • disloyalties — Plural form of disloyalty.
  • disorderedly — In a disordered way; haphazardly, chaotically.
  • dispiteously — in a manner that lacks pity
  • do the lolly — to lose one's temper
  • dodecastylos — a dodecastyle building, as a classical temple.
  • doggy paddle — a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her front, paddles his or her hands in imitation of a swimming dog, and beats his or her legs up and down
  • dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
  • domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
  • double bogey — a score of two strokes over par on a hole.
  • double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
  • double dummy — a variety of bridge for two players in which two hands are kept face down until the end of the bidding when both hands are exposed.
  • double entry — a method in which each transaction is entered twice in the ledger, once to the debit of one account, and once to the credit of another.
  • double rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
  • duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
  • dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
  • dyotheletism — the teaching that Christ had both a divine will and a human will
  • dysteleology — Philosophy. a doctrine denying the existence of a final cause or purpose.
  • early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • ectrodactyly — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
  • electrolyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of electrolyze.
  • electrotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of electrotype.
  • encyclopedia — An encyclopedia is a book or set of books in which facts about many different subjects or about one particular subject are arranged for reference, usually in alphabetical order.
  • encyclopedic — Comprehensive in terms of information.
  • endogenously — In an endogenous manner.
  • endophyllous — enclosed in a leaf or sheath
  • epicycloidal — Of or pertaining to an epicycloid.
  • epidemiology — The branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
  • episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
  • etymologized — Simple past tense and past participle of etymologize.
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
  • floppy drive — disk drive
  • florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
  • food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
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