7-letter words containing e, l, p
- crapple — (obsolete) A claw.
- creeple — Obsolete form of cripple.
- crimple — to crumple, wrinkle, or curl
- cripple — A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- crumple — If you crumple something such as paper or cloth, or if it crumples, it is squashed and becomes full of untidy creases and folds.
- cupless — Without a cup.
- cuplike — Resembling a cup.
- cupules — Plural form of cupule.
- cypsela — the dry one-seeded fruit of the daisy and related plants, which resembles an achene but is surrounded by a calyx sheath
- dappled — You use dappled to describe something that has dark or light patches on it, or that is made up of patches of light and shade.
- dapples — Plural form of dapple.
- decuple — to increase by ten times
- delapse — a falling or sinking down
- delphic — of or relating to Delphi or its oracle or temple
- delphin — a fatty substance made from dolphin oil
- deplane — to disembark from an aeroplane
- deplete — To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
- deplore — If you say that you deplore something, you think it is very wrong or immoral.
- deploys — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deploy.
- deplume — to deprive of feathers; pluck
- deposal — the act of deposing from office; deposition
- despoil — To despoil a place means to make it less attractive, valuable, or important by taking things away from it or by destroying it.
- develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- dewlaps — Plural form of dewlap.
- dimpled — a small, natural hollow area or crease, permanent or transient, in some soft part of the human body, especially one formed in the cheek in smiling.
- dimples — Plural form of dimple.
- disiple — (language, DSP) A DSP language.
- dispell — Alternative form of dispel.
- dispels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispel.
- dogpile — A mound of people, especially people who are fighting or celebrating.
- doppler — Christian Johann, 1803–53, Austrian physicist: discovered the Doppler effect.
- droplet — a little drop.
- dropple — a trickle
- dupable — a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull.
- dupleix — Joseph François [zhoh-zef frahn-swa] /ʒoʊˈzɛf frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), Marquis, 1697–1763, French colonial governor of India 1724–54.
- duplets — Plural form of duplet.
- dylperl — A dynamic linking package for Perl by Roberto Salama <[email protected]>. Dynamically loaded functions are accessed as if they were user-defined functions. This code is based on Oliver Sharp's May 1993 article in Dr. Dobbs Journal ("Dynamic Linking under Berkeley Unix"). Posted to news:comp.lang.perl on 1993-08-11.
- earflap — either of a pair of flaps attached to a cap, for covering the ears in cold weather.
- earplug — a plug of soft, pliable material inserted into the opening of the outer ear, especially to keep out water or noise.
- eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- ectypal — a reproduction; copy (opposed to prototype).
- eelpout — any fish of the family Zoarcidae, especially Zoarces viviparus, of Europe.
- ekpwele — a former monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea
- el paso — a city in W Texas, on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Pop: 584 113 (2003 est)
- elapids — Plural form of elapid.
- elapine — relating to or resembling an elapid
- elapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of elapse.
- elapses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elapse.
- elf-cup — any of various cup-shaped ascomycetous fungi of the order Pezizales, often strikingly coloured, such as the orange-peel elf-cup (Aleuria aurantia), which is bright orange inside and dirty white outside, and the scarlet elf-cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea)
- ellipse — A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane that does not intersect the base.