11-letter words containing i, l, a
- digitalized — Medicine/Medical. to treat (a person) with a regimen of digitalis.
- digladiator — a person who contends or fights
- dignifiable — Capable of being dignified.
- dilacerated — Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
- dilapidated — reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect.
- dilapidator — One who dilapidates, a person committing dilapidation.
- dilatations — Plural form of dilatation.
- dilatometer — a device for measuring expansion caused by changes in temperature in substances.
- dilettantes — Plural form of dilettante.
- dilly-dally — to loiter or vacillate
- dilutionary — causing, involving, or relating to the dilution of company stocks
- diluvialism — the theory, generally abandoned in the mid-19th century, that the earth's surface was shaped by the biblical flood
- diluvialist — a person who believes in the theory of diluvialism
- dimensional — Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- dimentional — Misspelling of dimensional.
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- dineolignan — (organic compound) Any compound having a structure based on a dineolignane.
- ding-a-ling — a stupid, foolish, or eccentric person.
- dining hall — a large room in which meals are served to members of a special group and their guests, as to the students and faculty of a college.
- dinner lady — female cook in school canteen
- dinnerplate — A plate on which dinner can be served.
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- diphthongal — Pertaining to a diphthong.
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- diplomacies — Plural form of diplomacy.
- diplomatese — the type of language or jargon used by diplomats, thought to be excessively complicated, cautious, or vague
- diplomatics — the science of deciphering old official documents, as charters, and of determining their authenticity, age, or the like.
- diplomatist — British Older Use. a Foreign Office employee officially engaged as a diplomat.
- diplomatize — to use diplomacy or tact.
- diplophonia — a condition in which the voice simultaneously produces two sounds of different pitch.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- direct-dial — being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
- disablement — to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate: The detective successfully disabled the bomb. He was disabled by the accident.
- disallowing — Present participle of disallow.
- disannuller — a person who disannuls
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disarmingly — removing or capable of removing hostility, suspicion, etc., as by being charming: a disarming smile.
- disassemble — to take apart.
- disassembly — to take apart.
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- disbursable — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- discalceate — (chiefly of members of certain religious orders) without shoes; unshod; barefoot.
- discardable — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
- discernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discernably — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- discifloral — having flowers in which the receptacle is expanded into a conspicuous disk, as in composite plants.
- disciplinal — Relating to discipline, i.e. order and/or punishment.