12-letter words containing l, i, p, d
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- dead spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
- deep linking — Digital Technology. the practice of using a link that sends traffic to an internal web page with more relevant or specific content, rather than to the website's home page, as to increase user engagement.
- delapidation — Dated form of dilapidation.
- deoppilation — the removal of obstructions
- deoppilative — any drug which removes obstructions in the body
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- depoliticise — Alternative spelling of depoliticize.
- depoliticize — to deprive of a political nature; render apolitical
- depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
- depopulating — Present participle of depopulate.
- depopulation — to remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
- deposit slip — a form that you fill in when you make a deposit into a bank account; it contains information such as the amount, whether it is a cash or cheque deposit, the account number and the date
- depositional — of or relating to a deposition
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- dermaplaning — a cosmetic treatment, often used to treat acne scars, in which surface irregularities are surgically scraped to give the skin a smoother appearance
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- desulphurize — to free or become free from sulphur
- devil's grip — pleurodynia (def 2).
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- dicarpellary — having two carpels
- diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
- diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
- dilapidating — Present participle of dilapidate.
- dilapidation — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- dinaric alps — a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)
- dinner plate — a plate for holding an individual serving of the main course of a meal.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- diplocardiac — having the right and left sides of the heart somewhat or completely divided, as in birds and mammals.
- diplodocuses — Plural form of diplodocus.
- diplogenesis — the double production or formation of something that is normally single, such as a doubled part in a fetus or a double fetus
- diploma mill — an academic institution with low standards that awards many degrees
- diplomatical — Obsolete form of diplomatic.
- diplomatists — Plural form of diplomatist.
- dipropellant — bipropellant.