11-letter words containing d, a, l, e
- liberalized — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalize.
- liddel hart — Sir Basil (Henry) 1895–1970, English military authority and writer.
- liederkranz — a German choral society or singing club, especially of men.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light bread — white bread.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- like a bird — without resistance or difficulty
- 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.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- link loader — linker
- lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lip-reading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- literalized — Simple past tense and past participle of literalize.
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- little hand — the ticking hand on a watch or clock which indicates or points to the hour
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- lizard head — a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.
- load module — a program or combination of programs in a form ready to be loaded into main storage and executed: generally the output from a linkage editor.
- load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
- loaded dice — dice weighted for cheating
- loadsamoney — an extremely wealthy person
- loathedness — the state or condition of being an object of disgust and dislike
- local derby — a football match between two teams from the same area
- loggerheads — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- logodaedaly — the cunning or skilful use of words
- lollygagged — Simple past tense and past participle of lollygag.
- long-haired — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- long-headed — Anthropology. dolichocephalic.
- long-tailed — (of an animal) having a long tail
- longhandles — long underwear.
- loss leader — a popular article that is sold at a very low price or at a loss for the purpose of attracting customers to a retail store. Compare leader (def 4).
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- 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
- lucid emacs — Xemacs
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- lydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from F to F.
- maddeningly — driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- madder lake — a strong purple-red color.
- magdalenian — of or relating to the final Paleolithic culture of much of western Europe, dating from c13,000–10,000 b.c. and notable for its artifacts of bone, antler, and ivory and for the cave art of western France and northeastern Spain.
- maiden lady — an unmarried woman
- 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
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.