11-letter words containing e, i, d, o, l
- dislodgment — Alternative form of dislodgement.
- dispeopling — Present participle of dispeople.
- disposables — Plural form of disposable.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disrelation — the absence of relation
- disselbooms — Plural form of disselboom.
- dissociable — capable of being dissociated; separable: Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.
- dissolutely — In a dissolute manner.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- distortedly — In a distorted way.
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- dobsonflies — Plural form of dobsonfly.
- docibleness — the quality or character of being docible
- dog licence — a special license which permits the holder to be the keeper of a dog
- 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.
- dole office — an informal term for a job centre
- dollishness — The quality of being dollish.
- 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.
- dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
- donkey-lick — to defeat decisively
- dorsiflexor — a muscle causing dorsiflexion.
- dotted line — a line on a contract or similar document for a party's signature.
- douay bible — an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.
- double bill — presentation: two films
- double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- 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 life — If you say that someone is living a double life, you mean that they lead two separate and very different lives, and they appear to be a different person in each.
- double tide — agger (def 1).
- double time — a doubled wage rate, paid for working on public holidays, etc
- double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- double-bill — to bill (different accounts) for the same charge: He double-billed different clients for the same business trip.
- double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- double-tide — Also called double tide. Oceanography. a high tide in which the water rises to a certain level, recedes, then rises again. a low tide in which the water recedes to a certain level, rises slightly, then recedes again.
- double-time — to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- double-wide — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- doublewides — Plural form of doublewide.
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- downwelling — a downward current of surface water in the ocean, usually caused by differences in the density of seawater.
- doxycycline — a synthetic analog of a broad-spectrum antibiotic tetracycline drug, C 22 H 24 N 2 O 8 , used against a wide range of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.