10-letter words containing i, l, a
- danish oil — a furniture oil, based on synthetic resins, that gives a soft luster.
- daredevils — Plural form of daredevil.
- darjeeling — a town in NE India, in West Bengal in the Himalayas, at an altitude of about 2250 m (7500 ft). Pop: 107 530 (2001)
- dark 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.
- dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.
- darlington — an industrial town in NE England in Darlington unitary authority, S Durham: developed mainly with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington railway (1825). Pop: 86 082 (2001)
- dash light — a light to illuminate a dashboard in a motor vehicle
- daugavpils — a city in SE Latvia on the Western Dvina River: founded in 1274 by Teutonic Knights; ruled by Poland (1559–1772) and Russia (1772–1915); retaken by the Russians in 1940. Pop: 112 609 (2002 est)
- dauntingly — In a daunting manner.
- day sailer — a small sailboat without sleeping accommodations, suitable for short trips.
- dazzlingly — to overpower or dim the vision of by intense light: He was dazzled by the sudden sunlight.
- de-isolate — to remove from isolation.
- deadliness — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadlining — Present participle of deadline.
- deaf-blind — of or relating to a person who is both deaf and blind.
- dealbation — the process of bleaching or making white
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- dealmaking — The making of commercial, financial or political deals.
- debasingly — In a debasing manner.
- debatingly — in an argumentative manner
- debilitate — If you are debilitated by something such as an illness, it causes your body or mind to become gradually weaker.
- debonairly — In a debonair manner.
- decaliters — Plural form of decaliter.
- decalogist — a person who interprets and expounds on the Ten Commandments
- deceivable — capable of being deceived; gullible.
- decennials — Plural form of decennial.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- decisional — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- declassify — If secret documents or records are declassified, it is officially stated that they are no longer secret.
- declinable — that can be declined; having case inflections
- declinator — a piece of apparatus that establishes the measure of a plane's deviation from the prime vertical or the meridian
- defaulting — guilty of a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation
- defeasible — (of an estate or interest in land) capable of being defeated or rendered void
- defilading — Present participle of defilade.
- definately — Misspelling of definitely.
- deflations — Plural form of deflation.
- defoliated — Simple past tense and past participle of defoliate.
- defoliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defoliate.
- defoliator — An adult or larval insect that strips all the leaves from a tree or shrub.
- delaminate — to divide or cause to divide into thin layers
- delay line — a device in which a known delay time is introduced in the transmission of a signal. An acoustic delay line delays a sound wave by circulating it through a liquid or solid medium
- delayering — Delayering is the process of simplifying the administrative structure of a large organization in order to make it more efficient.
- delegacies — Plural form of delegacy.
- delegalize — to revoke the statutory authorization of.
- delegating — Present participle of delegate.