11-letter words containing a, r, m, d, i, l
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- loading arm — A loading arm is a flexible piping unit that loads and unloads liquids and gases.
- lucid dream — a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming and can sometimes influence the course of the dream
- madrigalist — a composer or singer of madrigals.
- mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
- mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
- maladroitly — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- maquiladora — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
- mariticidal — Of, or pertaining to, mariticide. Often used to describe a person.
- marmalading — Present participle of marmalade.
- mediatorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a mediator.
- meridionals — Plural form of meridional.
- meteoroidal — (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteoroids. (from 19th c.).
- middlemarch — a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.
- midlittoral — designating or belonging to that part of a seashore affected by neap tides
- militarised — Simple past tense and past participle of militarise.
- militarized — Simple past tense and past participle of militarize.
- mill around — walk about
- millifarads — Plural form of millifarad.
- milliradian — one thousandth of a radian.
- mineralised — Simple past tense and past participle of mineralise.
- mineralized — Simple past tense and past participle of mineralize.
- mixed layer — the surface layer of water, seasonally varying in thickness, that is at almost uniform temperature owing to agitation by waves and wind.
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularized — having been made modular or relating to the use of modular concepts or forms
- molendinary — a mill
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- mortal mind — the illusion that mind and life arise from matter and are subject to death. Compare mind (def 19).
- multistrand — Composed of multiple strands.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
- 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.
- 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.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- pre-diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
- prime ideal — an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, having the property that when the product of two elements of the ring results in an element of the ideal, at least one of the elements is an element of the ideal.
- pyramidical — pyramidal.
- random line — a trial survey line run from a station toward a predetermined point that cannot be seen from the station.
- readme file — (convention, documentation) A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
- red admiral — the commander in chief of a fleet.
- ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
- riding lamp — a light on a boat or ship showing that it is at anchor
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom