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10-letter words containing e, l, d

  • doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
  • dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
  • dorbeetles — Plural form of dorbeetle.
  • dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
  • double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
  • double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
  • double bed — a bed large enough for two adults, especially a bed measuring 54 inches (137 cm) wide; full-size bed.
  • double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
  • double day — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
  • double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
  • double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
  • double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
  • double top — a score of double 20
  • double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
  • double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
  • doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
  • doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
  • doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
  • doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
  • doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
  • doug lenat — (person)   One of the world's leading computer scientists specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently (1999) head of the Cyc Project at MCC, and President of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. See also microLenat.
  • doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
  • dove color — warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint.
  • dover sole — another name for the European sole
  • dovetailed — noting a partition line or a charge, as an ordinary, having a series of indentations suggesting dovetails.
  • down-cycle — business: move downward
  • downblouse — Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's cleavage.
  • downfallen — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
  • downhiller — a skier who competes in downhill races, especially in the downhill.
  • downloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of download.
  • downloader — Someone who downloads files from the Internet.
  • downlooked — having a sad or dejected appearance
  • downplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of downplay.
  • downscaled — Simple past tense and past participle of downscale.
  • downslides — Plural form of downslide.
  • doxologies — Plural form of doxology.
  • doxologize — To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God with doxologies.
  • dragonlike — a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
  • dragsville — something unpleasantly boring or tedious.
  • drainfield — an open area, the soil of which absorbs the contents of a septic tank.
  • drainlayer — a person trained to build or repair drains
  • draw slide — dark slide (def 1).
  • draw table — a table having one or more sliding leaves that may be drawn out as an extension.
  • draw-slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
  • drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
  • dreadfully — in a dreadful way: The pain has increased dreadfully.
  • dreadingly — With dread.
  • dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
  • dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
  • dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
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