10-letter words containing l, d, a, p
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- dyalog apl — (language) Arguably the current (2001) market-leading implementation of APL, from Dyalog Limited. Dyalog APL runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000; and several popular UNIX systems including Linux. Dyalog APL complies with ISO 8485 and has many features that make it good for complex GUI applications. Dyalog APL was introduced in 1983 and is currently (2002) in active development.
- dysplastic — Exhibiting dysplasia.
- edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
- empanelled — Simple past tense and past participle of empanel.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- epauletted — Alternative form of epauleted.
- epicardial — Of or pertaining to the epicardium.
- epidemical — Alternative form of epidemic.
- epididymal — Of, in or pertaining to the epididymis, the tube in male mammals which connects the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens.
- espadrille — A light canvas shoe with a plaited fiber sole.
- espaliered — Simple past tense and past participle of espalier.
- esplanades — Plural form of esplanade.
- exculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of exculpate.
- expandable — Having the capacity to be expanded.
- expendable — (of an object) Designed to be used only once and then abandoned or destroyed.
- explananda — Plural form of explanandum.
- explicated — Simple past tense and past participle of explicate.
- false pond — a mirage.
- fissipedal — (zoology) Being or relating to a fissiped.
- fittipaldi — Emerson. born 1946, Brazilian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion (1972,1974)
- flapdoodle — nonsense; bosh.
- flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flood lamp — a floodlight.
- floodlamps — Plural form of floodlamp.
- floodplain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
- glammed up — made to look more glamorous
- glen plaid — a plaid pattern of muted colors or of black or gray and white, especially one in which two dark and two light stripes alternate with four dark and four light stripes, both vertically and horizontally, forming a crossing pattern of irregular checks.
- gold plate — a thin coating of gold, usually produced by electroplating
- gold-plate — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- goldplated — to coat (base metal) with gold, especially by electroplating.
- guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- handclasps — Plural form of handclasp.
- hard maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- hedgeapple — Alternate name for the fruit of the osage orange tree, also known as the hedge tree.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- hexaploidy — the condition of being a hexaploid
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- hydroplane — a seaplane.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- ideal type — a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
- impaludism — a diseased state affecting the inhabitants of marshy areas
- impanelled — Simple past tense and past participle of impanel.