11-letter words containing e, i, d, o, l
- dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
- desalinator — an apparatus used in the process of desalination
- deschooling — to abolish or phase out traditional schools from, so as to replace them with alternative methods and forms of education.
- descloizite — a mineral, lead zinc vanadate.
- desert soil — a type of soil developed in arid climates, characterized by a lack of leaching and small humus content
- desocialize — to remove from a customary social environment: Imprisonment desocializes the inmates.
- desolations — Plural form of desolation.
- despoilment — The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
- 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
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- diabetology — (medicine) The study of the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diagonalise — Alternative spelling of diagonalize.
- diagonalize — (in linear algebra) to convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix
- diazoalkane — any diazo compound having the general formula R 2 CN 2 , where R is hydrogen or any saturated organic group, as diazomethane, CH 2 N 2 .
- dicephalous — having two heads
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
- 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.
- dimensional — Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- dimentional — Misspelling of dimensional.
- 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.
- dineolignan — (organic compound) Any compound having a structure based on a dineolignane.
- dinner roll — a small round piece of bread provided as a side dish as part of a meal
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- diotheletic — relating to diothelism
- 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.
- 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.
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- disbowelled — disembowelled
- disc floret — any of the small tubular flowers at the centre of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy
- disclosures — Plural form of disclosure.
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- discoloured — (British) alternative spelling of discolored.
- disembowels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disembowel.
- disemployed — Simple past tense and past participle of disemploy.
- disenclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of disenclose.
- disenrolled — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- dishonestly — In a dishonest manner.
- disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.