12-letter words containing l, y
- delay screen — (in a cathode-ray tube) a sensitized screen with a phosphorescent coating that retains the image formed by the electron beam for an appreciable time.
- delayed drop — a parachute descent with the opening of the parachute delayed, usually for a predetermined period
- deliberately — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- delinquently — failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
- delivery boy — a boy or youth who delivers merchandise for a store, as to the homes or offices of customers.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- delray beach — a city in SE Florida.
- delta rhythm — the normal electrical activity of the cerebral cortex during deep sleep, occurring at a frequency of 1 to 4 hertz and detectable with an electroencephalograph
- delusionally — In a delusional way.
- demoniacally — In a demoniacal manner.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- denotatively — having power to denote.
- deny a claim — If an insurance company denies a claim, it refuses to pay a claim submitted by a policyholder.
- deny oneself — to do without desired things
- depolymerize — to break (a polymer) into constituent monomers or (of a polymer) to decompose in this way
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- deregulatory — Of or pertaining to deregulation.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivatively — derived.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- derogatorily — tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory: a derogatory remark.
- descendingly — In a descending manner.
- desirability — worth having or wanting; pleasing, excellent, or fine: a desirable apartment.
- desolatingly — in a way that desolates, in a desolating fashion
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- determinably — In a determinable way.
- determinedly — resolute; staunch: the determined defenders of the Alamo.
- detonability — the quality of being detonable
- devotionally — In a devotional manner.
- diabolically — having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked: a diabolic plot.
- dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
- dialkylamine — (organic chemistry) Any secondary amine formed from two alkyl groups.
- dialogically — in a dialogic manner
- dialytically — Done in a dialytic manner or way.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diatonically — In a diatonic manner.
- dicarboxylic — containing two carboxyl groups in the molecule
- dicarpellary — having two carpels
- dichotically — in a dichotic manner
- dicotyledons — Plural form of dicotyledon.
- dictyostelic — Of or possessing a dictyostele.
- didactically — In a didactic manner.
- diddly-squat — anything
- die horribly — (jargon) The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly".