10-letter words containing l, e, d, o
- dog kennel — temporary housing for dogs
- dog paddle — a simple swimming stroke in which the body is kept nearly upright, the arms paddle, and the legs move up and down as in running
- dog violet — a violet, Viola canina, that grows in Europe and N Asia and has blue yellow-spurred flowers
- dog-legged — bent like the hind leg of a dog; zigzag.
- dog-paddle — to swim or keep afloat by use of the dog paddle.
- dog-walker — a person who walks other people's dogs, especially for a fee.
- dogsledded — Simple past tense and past participle of dogsled.
- dogsledder — a person who uses a dogsled
- dolce vita — sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la).
- dolcelatte — A mild, slightly sweet form of gorgonzola cheese.
- dolcemente — softly; sweetly
- dole money — money received from the state while out of work
- dole queue — When people talk about the dole queue, they are talking about the state of being unemployed, especially when saying how many people are unemployed.
- dolesomely — in a doleful manner
- dollarless — without dollars; having no money
- dollarwise — as expressed in dollars; in dollars and cents: How much does a million francs amount to, dollarwise?
- dollhouses — Plural form of dollhouse.
- dolomitize — to convert (limestone) into dolomite.
- dolostones — Plural form of dolostone.
- dome light — a small light under the roof of an automobile or boat.
- domestical — Archaic form of domestic.
- dominicale — a veil formerly worn by women during divine service.
- doodle-bug — any of various small, squat vehicles.
- doodlebugs — Plural form of doodlebug.
- doodlesack — bagpipe (def 1).
- doom-laden — conveying a sense of disaster and tragedy
- doorhandle — A door handle.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
- dorbeetles — Plural form of dorbeetle.
- dorsovelar — articulated with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate, as (k) and (ŋ)
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double bar — a double vertical line on a staff indicating the conclusion of a piece of music or a subdivision of it.
- double bed — a bed large enough for two adults, especially a bed measuring 54 inches (137 cm) wide; full-size bed.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double day — Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double run — a set of four cards consisting of a three-card run plus a fourth card of the same denomination as one of the others, as 2, 3, 4, 4, worth eight points.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- doubleness — the quality or condition of being double.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doublewide — Alternative spelling of double-wide.
- doubleword — two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
- doug lenat — (person) One of the world's leading computer scientists specialising in Artificial Intelligence. He is currently (1999) head of the Cyc Project at MCC, and President of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. See also microLenat.
- doughbelly — stoneroller (def 1).
- dove color — warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint.