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11-letter words containing l, a, p, o, r

  • corpuscular — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
  • corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
  • counterplan — an opposing plan
  • counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
  • counterplea — a reply to a plea
  • cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
  • crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
  • crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
  • dawn patrol — a flight, especially during the early days of military aviation, undertaken at dawn or early morning in order to reconnoiter enemy positions.
  • delors plan — a plan for closer European union, originated by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission (1985–94)
  • deploration — the act of deploring
  • 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.
  • depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
  • dermoplasty — skin grafting.
  • dilapidator — One who dilapidates, a person committing dilapidation.
  • 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.
  • dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
  • disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • doll's pram — toy: miniature baby carriage
  • dorsispinal — of or relating to the back and the spine.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • drop a line — send a message
  • drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
  • dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • electroplax — Each of a number of flattened plates of protoplasm that make up the electric organ of certain fishes, e.g., the electric eel.
  • epiplastron — a lateral plate in the plastron of a turtle
  • exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
  • explanatory — Serving to explain something.
  • explicatory — Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
  • exploration — The action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.
  • explorative — Exploratory.
  • exploratory — Relating to or involving exploration or investigation.
  • extrapolate — extrapolation
  • fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
  • filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
  • flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
  • flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
  • flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
  • flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  • flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
  • flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
  • flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
  • floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
  • floral park — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
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