10-letter words containing e, i, d, o, l
- derisorily — In a derisory manner.
- desirously — With desire; eagerly.
- desmoulins — (Lucie Simplice) Camille (Benoît) (kamij). 1760–94, French revolutionary leader, pamphleteer, and orator
- desolating — Present participle of desolate.
- desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- despoilers — Plural form of despoiler.
- despoiling — plundering by force
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- devalorize — Devalue.
- developing — If you talk about developing countries or the developing world, you mean the countries or the parts of the world that are poor and have few industries.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- devil of a — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devilwoods — Plural form of devilwood.
- devocalize — devoice.
- devolution — Devolution is the transfer of some authority or power from a central organization or government to smaller organizations or government departments.
- devotional — Devotional activities, writings, or objects relate to religious worship.
- diabolized — Simple past tense and past participle of diabolize.
- dialogized — Simple past tense and past participle of dialogize.
- diarrhoeal — Standard spelling of diarrheal.
- dichloride — a compound in which two atoms of chlorine are combined with another atom or group
- dichlorine — (chemistry, in combination) Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule.
- dienophile — (organic chemistry) A compound that readily reacts with a diene; especially an alkene in the Diels-Alder reaction.
- diesel oil — a combustible petroleum distillate used as fuel for diesel engines.
- difluoride — (chemistry) any chloride containing two fluorine atoms in each molecule.
- dime novel — a cheap melodramatic or sensational novel, usually in paperback and selling for ten cents, especially such an adventure novel popular c1850 to c1920.
- diocletian — (Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus) a.d. 245–316, Illyrian soldier: emperor of Rome 284–305.
- diothelete — a believer in diothelism
- diothelism — the doctrine that Christ on earth had two wills, human and divine
- diothelite — a believer in the doctrine of ditheletism
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- disallowed — Forbidden.
- disclosers — Plural form of discloser.
- disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- discolored — Changed in color in a way that is less attractive.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- discounsel — to advise (a person) against a specific act
- disembowel — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disembroil — to free from embroilment, entanglement, or confusion.
- disemvowel — to remove the vowels from (a word in a text message, email, etc) in order to abbreviate it
- disenclose — (transitive) To free from being enclosed.
- disennoble — to deprive of nobility
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- dish towel — cloth: for drying dishes
- dishtowels — Plural form of dishtowel.
- disiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any siloxane having two -Si-O- groups.
- disinclose — to free from being inclosed