11-letter words containing a, n, d, f
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- latifundium — a great estate.
- 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.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- madefaction — the process of making wet
- main-de-fer — manifer.
- mutual fund — an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.
- needlecraft — needlework.
- new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
- nullifidian — a person who has no faith or religion; skeptic.
- off-roading — driving on unmade terrain
- offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- rangefinder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- referendary — a referee who resolves disputes or makes decisions
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- son of adam — a man: He had all the weaknesses to which a son of Adam is heir.
- standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
- stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- transferred — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- unafflicted — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- unamplified — not amplified, magnified, or enlarged
- uncalcified — not calcified; not converted into lime
- uncared for — If you describe people or animals as uncared for, you mean that they have not been looked after properly and as a result are hungry, dirty, or ill.
- uncared-for — untended; neglected; unkempt: The garden had an uncared-for look.
- unclarified — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- undefinable — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- unfashioned — not fashioned or made; not formed
- unfeathered — clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
- unfeudalize — to release from feudal customs
- unfinalized — to put into final form; complete all the details of.