11-letter words containing a, d, e, f
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- halfendeale — a half portion of something
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- head office — headquarters
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- in-stead of — as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something: We ordered tea but were served coffee instead.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian file — in single file.
- infanticide — the act of killing an infant.
- infeudation — the act of putting a vassal in possession of a fief
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- infomediary — An Internet company that gathers and links information on particular subjects on behalf of commercial organizations and their potential customers.
- infraorders — Misspelling of infra-orders.
- infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
- janus-faced — having two faces, one looking forward, one looking backward, as the Roman deity Janus.
- ladderproof — unable to ladder; resistant against undoing (of a line of interconnected stitches) as by snagging
- lady friend — female companion
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- land freeze — a legal restraint on the sale or transfer of land.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- left-handed — having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
- left-hander — a person who is left-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the left hand.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- madefaction — the process of making wet
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.