11-letter words containing l, d, s
- dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- dissolvings — things that have been dissolved or partially dissolved
- dissonantly — In a dissonant manner.
- dissuadable — That can be dissuaded.
- dissyllable — disyllable.
- distasteful — unpleasant, offensive, or causing dislike: a distasteful chore.
- distensible — capable of being distended.
- distillable — Capable of being distilled, especially capably of being distilled without chemical decomposition.
- distillates — Plural form of distillate.
- distillment — distillation.
- distortedly — In a distorted way.
- distractful — (archaic) distracting.
- distressful — causing or involving distress: the distressful circumstances of poverty and sickness.
- distrustful — unable or unwilling to trust; doubtful; suspicious: An alert scientist is distrustful of coincidences.
- disulphuric — pyrosulphuric
- disyllabism — the state of being disyllabic.
- disyllabize — to make disyllabic.
- disyllables — Plural form of disyllable.
- ditheletism — the theory and belief that Christ had two wills, human and divine
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- divinopolis — a city in Minas Gerais state, SE Brazil.
- dizzy spell — attack of vertigo
- dobsonflies — Plural form of dobsonfly.
- docibleness — the quality or character of being docible
- dodecastyle — having 12 columns.
- dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- doggy style — of sexual intercourse, a position whereby the female is on all fours and the male is behind her
- dolefulness — The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
- doll's pram — toy: miniature baby carriage
- dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
- dollishness — The quality of being dollish.
- dolphinfish — dolphin (def 2).
- doltishness — The characteristic of being doltish.
- dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
- doodle-sack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doodlesacks — Plural form of doodlesack.
- dorsal root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- dorsiflexor — a muscle causing dorsiflexion.
- dorsispinal — of or relating to the back and the spine.
- dorsolumbar — of, relating to, or affecting the back in the region of the lumbar vertebrae.
- dot leaders — (text) A row of full stops intended to guide the reader's eye across the page from a column of variable length items on the left to the corresponding items in a column on the right. Used, for example, in the contents page of a book to tie a heading on the left to its page number on the right.
- double bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
- doublecross — To betray someone by leading them into trap after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were actually being aided.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.