12-letter words containing e, y, l
- dairy cattle — cows raised mainly for their milk
- daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- decalcifying — Present participle of decalcify.
- decasyllabic — having ten syllables: a decasyllabic verse.
- decasyllable — a word or line of verse consisting of ten syllables
- decidability — the capability of being decided
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- decreasingly — In a decreasing manner.
- decylic acid — capric acid.
- deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- definitively — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- degenerately — In a degenerate manner.
- degressively — in a degressive fashion
- delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
- delay screen — (in a cathode-ray tube) a sensitized screen with a phosphorescent coating that retains the image formed by the electron beam for an appreciable time.
- delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
- deliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- delinquently — failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demoniacally — In a demoniacal manner.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- denotatively — having power to denote.
- deny a claim — If an insurance company denies a claim, it refuses to pay a claim submitted by a policyholder.
- deny oneself — to do without desired things
- depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivatively — derived.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.