9-letter words containing p, d, l
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clodpated — stupid
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold pole — the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.
- cold snap — A cold snap is a short period of cold and icy weather.
- cold spot — an area where house prices are stable and properties are slow to sell
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- cold-pack — to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.
- coldsleep — A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- collapsed — Simple past tense and past participle of collapse.
- compelled — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
- completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- complexed — composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
- copiloted — Simple past tense and past participle of copilot.
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- coupledom — the state of living as a couple, esp when regarded as being interested in each other to the exclusion of the outside world
- cuddle up — If you cuddle up to someone, you sit or lie as near to them as possible.
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- dapatical — (obsolete) sumptuous in cheer.
- dasypygal — (nonce) Having hairy buttocks.
- date palm — A date palm is a palm tree on which dates grow.
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- davy lamp — an early safety lamp for miners, in which the flame was enclosed by wire gauze as a protection against firedamp
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- de-couple — to cause to become separated, disconnected, or divergent; uncouple.
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- decapodal — (zoology) Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decompile — Produce source code from (compiled code).
- decomplex — having or composed of parts that are complex in themselves
- decoupled — Simple past tense and past participle of decouple.
- decoupler — a person or device that disconnects parts that are joined
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decupling — Present participle of decuple.
- deed poll — a deed made by one party only, esp one by which a person changes his or her name
- deep blue — (computer) A super computer developed by researchers at IBM to explore the use of parallel processing to solve complex computing problems. It is known as the first computer to beat the current chess World Grand Master. Deep Blue started it's life as a PhD project at Carnegie Mellon University by PhD students Feng-hsiung Hsu and Murray Campbell. Chiptest, as it was known then, consisted of a custom designed chip hosted in a Sun 3/160 computer. The project moved over to IBM in 1989 when Hsu and Campbell joined IBM. Deep Thought, as it was known by then, played for the first time against Garry Kasparov in the same year. The game of two matches was easily won by Kasparov. The next match against Kasparov took place in February 1996. By then the machine was again renamed, at that time it was known as Deep Blue. It was also heavily re-engineered: it was by then running on a 32-node RS/6000 cluster, each containing 8 custom designed chips. Alas, Kasparov won again. The breakthrough finally happened in February 1997: with both the algorithm and the raw speed significantly improved, Deep Blue beat Kasparov 3.5:2.5.
- deep-laid — (of a plot or plan) carefully worked out and kept secret
- deep-link — Digital Technology. 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.
- delphinia — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- delphinin — a violet anthocyanin, C 41 H 38 O 21 , found in the flowers of the larkspur, Delphinium consolida.
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- demi-plie — a movement done in any of the five positions, in which the dancer bends the knees halfway, keeping the heels securely on the ground.