11-letter words containing l, o, a, d, s
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diagnosable — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diagonalise — Alternative spelling of diagonalize.
- dialogistic — a speaker in a dialogue.
- dicephalous — having two heads
- diffusional — Of or pertaining to diffusion.
- digestional — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- dilatations — Plural form of dilatation.
- dimensional — Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- diode laser — a laser in which a semiconductor is the light-emitting source, used in many medical procedures.
- 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.
- disallowing — Present participle of disallow.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
- disavowable — capable of being disavowed
- discifloral — having flowers in which the receptacle is expanded into a conspicuous disk, as in composite plants.
- discolorate — (transitive, dated) To discolor.
- dislocating — Present participle of dislocate.
- dislocation — an act or instance of dislocating.
- disposables — Plural form of disposable.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disrelation — the absence of relation
- dissociable — capable of being dissociated; separable: Worthy and unworthy motives are often not dissociable.
- dissolvable — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
- dissonantly — In a dissonant manner.
- diversional — offering diversion or recreation; diverting.
- dodecastyle — having 12 columns.
- doll's pram — toy: miniature baby carriage
- dollar sign — the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars.
- 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.
- 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)
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- douglas bag — an airtight bag used to collect expired air for analysis of oxygen consumption.
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- douglas sbd — dauntless (def 2).
- downloaders — Plural form of downloader.
- downscaling — Present participle of downscale.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.