10-letter words containing l, p, a
- dependable — If you say that someone or something is dependable, you approve of them because you feel that you can be sure that they will always act consistently or sensibly, or do what you need them to do.
- dependably — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- depletable — to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of: The fire had depleted the game in the forest. Extravagant spending soon depleted his funds.
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- deployable — able to be deployed
- depolarize — to undergo or cause to undergo a loss of polarity or polarization
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- deportable — liable to deportation
- depravedly — in a depraved manner
- deprecable — able to be deprecated
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despisable — deserving of being despised; despicable
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- dilapidate — 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.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diplacusis — a difference in hearing by the two ears so that one sound is heard as two.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disapplied — Simple past tense and past participle of disapply.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- dispersals — Plural form of dispersal.
- displacing — Present participle of displace.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- display ad — an advertisement, in a newspaper or other publication, often using special attention-getting devices, as large size, display type, and illustrations.
- displaying — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- displeased — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
- displeases — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of displease.
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- dissipable — capable of being dissipated
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- 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-paddle — to swim or keep afloat by use of the dog paddle.