11-letter words containing a, d, l, i, b
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- habilitated — Simple past tense and past participle of habilitate.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hereditable — heritable.
- holiday job — a temporary job taken by a person during their holidays from school, college or university
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- ida tarbell — Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- immedicable — incurable.
- immedicably — In an immedicable way; incurably.
- inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisably — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian club — a metal or wooden club shaped like a large bottle, swung singly or in pairs for exercising the arms.
- indicatable — That can be indicated.
- indie label — an independent recording company
- individable — indivisible
- indominable — Lb alveolar intervocal flapping misspelling of indomitable.
- indomitable — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- indomitably — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- indubitable — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
- indubitably — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infundibula — Plural form of infundibulum.
- inland bill — a bill of exchange drawn and payable, actually or on its face, in the same jurisdiction, as in the same country or state.
- irradicable — ineradicable.
- irradicably — ineradicably
- labiodental — articulated with the lower lip touching the upper front teeth, as f or v, or, rarely, with the upper lip touching the lower front teeth.
- labradorite — a feldspar mineral of the plagioclase group, often characterized by a brilliant change of colors, with blue and green most common.
- lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
- land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
- landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- laudability — Laudableness.
- law-abiding — obeying or keeping the law; obedient to law: law-abiding citizens.
- liberalised — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalise.
- liberalized — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalize.
- light bread — white bread.
- like a bird — without resistance or difficulty
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.