11-letter words containing p, i, l
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- cosmopolite — an animal or plant that occurs in most parts of the world
- coup d'oeil — a quick glance
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- credit slip — A credit slip is the same as a credit note.
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- cripplingly — Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
- crop circle — any of various patterns, usually wholly or partly consisting of ring shapes, formed by the unexplained flattening of cereals growing in a field
- cryptically — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cryptologic — cryptography.
- culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- cyclopaedia — (archaic) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge.
- cycloplegia — paralysis of the muscles that adjust the shape of the lens of the eye, resulting in loss of ability to focus
- cycloplegic — paralysis of the intraocular muscles.
- cyclosporin — a substance, synthesized by certain soil fungi, that suppresses the immune response by disabling helper T cells, used to minimize rejection of foreign tissue transplants.
- cynophilist — a person with a love of dogs
- cytoplasmic — the cell substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus, containing the cytosol, organelles, cytoskeleton, and various particles.
- das kapital — a work (1867) by Karl Marx, dealing with economic, social, and political relations within society and containing the tenets on which modern communism is based.
- dealerships — Plural form of dealership.
- deceptively — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- decompilers — Plural form of decompiler.
- deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
- deep-litter — denoting a system in which a number of hens are housed in one covered enclosure, within which they can move about freely, on a layer of straw or wood shavings several centimetres deep
- delapidated — Misspelling of dilapidated.
- delipidated — Simple past tense and past participle of delipidate.
- delphically — in an ambiguous manner; obscurely
- delphiniums — Plural form of delphinium.
- demultiplex — (electronics) To separate signals that were previously multiplexed (combined using a multiplexer).
- dendrophile — One who loves trees.
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- dependingly — As having dependence.
- deploration — the act of deploring
- deploringly — In a deploring manner.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depolarized — Simple past tense and past participle of depolarize.
- depolarizer — a substance added to the electrolyte of an electric cell or battery to remove gas collected at the electrodes.
- depollution — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
- depressible — that can be depressed
- des plaines — city in NE Ill.: suburb of Chicago: pop. 59,000
- desparingly — In a despairing manner.
- despisingly — in a despising manner; contemptuously
- despoilment — The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- diaphonical — Diacoustic; diaphonic.
- dicephalous — having two heads