11-letter words containing d, a, l, e
- law student — sb who studies legal system
- layer board — lear board.
- laze around — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- lead astray — tempt into bad behaviour
- lead pencil — a writing or drawing implement made of graphite in a wooden or metal holder.
- lead piping — pipes made of lead
- lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
- leaden-eyed — heavy-eyed; dull-eyed
- leader head — a boxlike head of a downspout connected to a gutter.
- leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leaderboard — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
- leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
- leading dog — a dog trained to lead a flock of sheep to prevent them breaking or stampeding
- leading man — an actor who plays the principal male role in a motion picture or play.
- leap second — Coordinated Universal Time
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- learnedness — The quality of being learned.
- leased line — (communications, networking) A private telephone circuit permanently connecting two points, normally provided on a lease by a local PTT.
- leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
- leatherhead — any of various Australasian honeyeaters, especially of the genus Philemon.
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- led display — a flat-screen device in which an array of light-emitting diodes can be selectively activated to display numerical and alphabetical information, used esp in pocket calculators, digital timepieces, measuring instruments, and in some microcomputers
- ledger beam — a reinforced-concrete beam having projecting ledges for receiving the ends of joists or the like.
- 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.
- legacy code — legacy system
- legacy duty — estate tax; inheritance tax
- legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legendarily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- legitimated — Simple past tense and past participle of legitimate.
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- lend a hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lend an ear — listen to sb
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- lepidoptera — the order comprising the lepidopterous insects.
- leptodactyl — leptodactylous
- lethal dose — the amount of a drug or other agent that if administered to an animal or human will prove fatal
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- letter card — a large postal card, with gummed edges, that can be folded lengthwise and sealed with the message inside.
- letter-card — a large postal card, with gummed edges, that can be folded lengthwise and sealed with the message inside.
- letterheads — Plural form of letterhead.
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- levelheaded — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- lexicalized — Simple past tense and past participle of lexicalize.
- liard-river — a river in W Canada, flowing from S Yukon through N British Columbia and the Northwest Territories into the Mackenzie River. 550 miles (885 km) long.
- liberalised — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalise.