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11-letter words containing a, l, d, r

  • octachordal — having or consisting of eight notes or eight strings
  • old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
  • old iranian — any of the Iranian languages spoken or written until the first century a.d.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • old russian — Russian as used in documents before 1600. Abbreviation: ORuss.
  • old scratch — the devil; Satan.
  • operculated — relating to the operculum
  • oracle card — (tool)   A Hypercard-like product from Oracle for constructing database applications. It runs on IBM PC and Macintosh.
  • ordeal bean — Calabar bean.
  • ordeal tree — any of several trees having poisonous seeds, leaves, etc., used in primitive trials by ordeal.
  • orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • orthodontal — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
  • osteodermal — characterized by osteoderms
  • over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • overloading — (language)   (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
  • overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
  • overplanned — resulting from overplanning
  • pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • paddleboard — a type of surfboard with one end rounded and the other tapered to a point, used chiefly in surfing and often in lifesaving.
  • palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
  • palm reader — fortune teller who interprets hand lines
  • palmer land — the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • pappardelle — flat pasta cut in wide strips.
  • paradoxical — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • paragliding — a sport resembling hang gliding, in which a person jumps from an aircraft or high place wearing a wide, rectangular, steerable parachute.
  • paraldehyde — a colorless, liquid, cyclic compound, C 6 H 1 2 O 3 , having a disagreeable taste but an agreeable odor, produced by the polymerization of acetaldehyde with sulfuric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of organic chemicals and in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • parallelled — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • paramedical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
  • parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
  • partialized — to bias.
  • pastureland — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
  • pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
  • pearl diver — a person who dives for pearl oysters or other pearl-bearing mollusks.
  • pedal power — use of a cycle
  • pericardial — of or relating to the pericardium.
  • periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
  • personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • petrodollar — profits made from oil exports
  • philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • plagiarised — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
  • plantigrade — walking on the whole sole of the foot, as humans, and bears.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
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