10-letter words containing p, o, l
- developing — If you talk about developing countries or the developing world, you mean the countries or the parts of the world that are poor and have few industries.
- dienophile — (organic chemistry) A compound that readily reacts with a diene; especially an alkene in the Diels-Alder reaction.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- diplobiont — an organism that has both haploid and diploid individuals in its life cycle
- diplococci — any of several spherical bacteria occurring in pairs, as Diplococcus pneumoniae.
- diplodocus — a huge herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus, from the Late Jurassic Epoch of western North America, growing to a length of about 87 feet (26.5 meters).
- 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
- dirty pool — unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- dispeopled — Simple past tense and past participle of dispeople.
- dispeopler — One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
- dispeoples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispeople.
- displosion — (obsolete) explosion.
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- disposedly — in a disposed manner
- dodo split — a split in which the head pin and the seven or ten pin remain standing.
- 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.
- dollar gap — the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dollarspot — a turf disease caused by the fungus Sclerotinia or related genera, characterized by small, brown to straw-colored, round patches of dead grass that gradually spread and coalesce.
- dolly-posh — left-handed
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- downplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of downplay.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
- drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.