10-letter words containing e, p, i, l
- dip circle — an instrument for measuring dip, consisting of a dip needle with a vertical circular scale of angles
- dip needle — an early form of magnetometer, consisting of a magnetic needle pivoted through its center of gravity and having its axis through the vertical plane of the earth's magnetic meridian so as to point in the direction of maximum magnetic intensity.
- dipeptidyl — (biochemistry) Of or pertaining to dipeptides.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphyletic — of or relating to a taxonomic group of organisms derived from two separate ancestral lines.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disapplied — Simple past tense and past participle of disapply.
- discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- dispelling — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- dispeopled — Simple past tense and past participle of dispeople.
- dispeopler — One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
- dispeoples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispeople.
- dispersals — Plural form of dispersal.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- displeased — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
- displeases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displease.
- displenish — to remove furnishings or supplies from
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- disposedly — in a disposed manner
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- dissipable — capable of being dissipated
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disulphide — (in inorganic chemistry) a sulfide containing two atoms of sulfur, as carbon disulfide, CS 2 .
- dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
- 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-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.
- drill pipe — (in oil-well drilling or the like) any of several coupled tubes for rotating the bit and supplying drilling mud.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- duple time — characterized by two beats to the measure.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- east islip — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- ecliptical — Astronomy. the great circle formed by the intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere; the apparent annual path of the sun in the heavens. an analogous great circle on a terrestrial globe.
- ecthlipsis — loss of a consonant, especially, in Latin, loss of a final m before a word beginning with a vowel or h.
- el capitan — a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m (3600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m (7564 ft)
- ellipsoids — Plural form of ellipsoid.
- elliptical — (of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand.
- emacs lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used to implement the higher layers of the Free Software Foundation's editor, GNU Emacs. Sometimes abbreviated to "elisp". An enormous number of Emacs Lisp packages have been written including modes for editing many programming languages and interfaces to many Unix programs.
- empaneling — Present participle of empanel.
- emphatical — Emphatic.