12-letter words containing d, a, h, l
- leather-hard — (of ceramic clay) moist but not sufficiently so to be plastic.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- liddell hart — (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- loggerheaded — Dull; stupid.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- lord haw-haw — James (Augustine Aloysius) 1882–1941, Irish novelist.
- love handles — fat midriff
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- medal-holder — a person who has won a medal
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- mohammed ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- moral hazard — Insurance. an insurance company's risk as to the insured's trustworthiness and honesty.
- muddleheaded — confused in one's thinking; blundering: a muddleheaded assertion.
- muhammad ali — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- neanderthals — Plural form of neanderthal.
- needle match — a bitterly fought contest between two competitors or teams who bear each other a grudge
- needle-sharp — very sharp
- netherlander — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
- night lizard — any of several nocturnal lizards of the family Xantusiidae, of southwestern North America and Cuba, which bear live young.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- nontyphoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- noordholland — North Holland
- north island — the northernmost principal island of New Zealand. 44,281 sq. mi. (114,690 sq. km).
- not half bad — very good
- octahedrally — in an octahedral manner
- old catholic — a member of any of several European churches professing to be truly Catholic but rejecting certain modern Roman Catholic doctrines, dogmas, and practices, especially the dogma of papal infallibility.
- old faithful — one of the best known geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.