11-letter words containing e, o, l
- dendroglyph — the art of carving in the bark of a living tree, esp as practised by the aboriginal peoples of New Zealand
- dendrolatry — the worship of trees
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.
- denominable — Capable of being denominated or named.
- denormalize — (transitive, databases) To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- dentolabial — (phonetics) articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth.
- deo volente — God willing
- deploration — the act of deploring
- deploringly — In a deploring manner.
- deployments — Plural form of deployment.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.
- depolarizer — a substance added to the electrolyte of an electric cell or battery to remove gas collected at the electrodes.
- depollution — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- depopulated — (of a place) reduced in population
- depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
- dermatology — the branch of medicine concerned with the skin and its diseases
- dermoplasty — skin grafting.
- 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.
- destroyable — Able to be destroyed.
- 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
- developable — Able to be developed, in particular.
- development — Development is the gradual growth or formation of something.
- devocalized — Simple past tense and past participle of devocalize.
- devolvement — to transfer or delegate (a duty, responsibility, etc.) to or upon another; pass on.
- devotionals — Plural form of devotional.
- devouringly — In a devouring manner; rapaciously, consumingly.
- dexterously — skillful or adroit in the use of the hands or body.
- dextrocular — favoring the right eye, rather than the left, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to sinistrocular).
- 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.