11-letter words that end in l
- cyclopropyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from cyclopropane by the formal removal of a hydrogen atom.
- cylindrical — Something that is cylindrical is in the shape of a cylinder.
- cytological — Of, or relating to cytology or cytologists.
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- 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.
- date mussel — any brown, date-sized marine mussel, genus Lithophaga, that bores into rock or coral.
- dating nail — a nail driven into a wooden tie, pole, etc., bearing on its head the date of installation or last treatment of the timber.
- dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
- day-neutral — (of plants) having an ability to mature and bloom that is not affected by day length
- death angel — Azrael.
- death knell — something that heralds death or destruction
- death metal — a type of heavy-metal music characterized by extreme speed and lyrics dealing with violence, satanism, etc
- decremental — relating to a small amount that is taken away
- deferential — Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful towards someone else.
- degree mill — an academic institution with low standards that awards many degrees
- delightfull — Archaic form of delightful.
- demagogical — Demagogic.
- demand bill — a bill of exchange that is payable on demand
- demand-pull — designating or having to do with a form of inflation in which prices are driven up by an excess demand for goods and services, relative to their supply
- dendritical — Alternative form of dendritic.
- dentolabial — (phonetics) articulated with the upper lip and lower teeth.
- desert soil — a type of soil developed in arid climates, characterized by a lack of leaching and small humus content
- desinential — Terminal.
- detrimental — Something that is detrimental to something else has a harmful or damaging effect on it.
- diacritical — of or relating to a diacritic
- dialectical — In philosophy, Dialectical is used to describe situations, theories, and methods which depend on resolving opposing factors.
- diametrical — of or along a diameter
- diaphonical — Diacoustic; diaphonic.
- dichlobenil — a nonselective preemergence herbicide, C 7 H 3 Cl 2 N, used primarily as a weed and grass killer.
- dictational — the act or manner of dictating for reproduction in writing.
- dictatorial — Dictatorial means controlled or used by a dictator.
- diesel fuel — a combustible petroleum distillate used as fuel for diesel engines.
- diffusional — Of or pertaining to diffusion.
- digestional — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- diisopropyl — Having two isopropyl groups.
- dimensional — Of or pertaining to dimensions.
- dimentional — Misspelling of dimensional.
- dimercaprol — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
- dining hall — a large room in which meals are served to members of a special group and their guests, as to the students and faculty of a college.
- dinner bell — signal: dinnertime
- dinner roll — a small round piece of bread provided as a side dish as part of a meal
- diphthongal — Pertaining to a diphthong.
- diphycercal — having a tail or caudal fin with the spinal column extending horizontally to the end of the tail, characteristic of lungfish, several other primitive fishes, and the juvenile stage of modern bony fishes.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- direct-dial — being a telephone or telephone system enabling long-distance calls to be direct-dialed.
- directional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.