9-letter words containing d, a, l, e
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- leotarded — Clad in a leotard.
- leporidae — an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- lespedeza — any shrub or herb belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and lavender flowers, grown for forage, soil improvement, etc.
- levelland — a city in NW Texas.
- leveraged — Simple past tense and past participle of leverage.
- levigated — Simple past tense and past participle of levigate.
- levitated — Simple past tense and past participle of levitate.
- liaisoned — Simple past tense and past participle of liaison.
- liar dice — a gambling game in which the throw of five dice by each player is concealed from the opponent and bluffing is permitted
- liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- lidocaine — a synthetic crystalline powder, C 14 H 22 N 2 O, used as a local anesthetic and also in the management of certain arrhythmias.
- lifeguard — an expert swimmer employed, as at a beach or pool, to protect bathers from drowning or other accidents and dangers.
- lindemann — Frederick Alexander, 1st Viscount Cherwell. 1886–1957, British physicist, born in Germany; Churchill's scientific adviser during World War II
- link-dead — Said of a MUD character who has frozen in place because of a dropped network connection.
- lipidemia — (medicine) The presence of lipids in the blood.
- liquidate — to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
- litigated — Simple past tense and past participle of litigate.
- live data — 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking virus that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs in vi that allow certain texts to send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In C, data that includes pointers to functions (executable code). 3. An object, such as a trampoline, that is constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to "test data". For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response to the above claim might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deletion module running amok on live data would probably cause great harm.
- live load — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- load line — Also called Plimsoll line. any of various lines marked on the sides of a cargo vessel to indicate the depth to which a vessel may be immersed under certain conditions. Compare freeboard (def 1a).
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried
- loadstone — a variety of magnetite that possesses magnetic polarity and attracts iron.
- loanblend — a compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements.
- lobulated — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- localised — localisation
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- loculated — Locular.
- lodestars — Plural form of lodestar.
- lodgeable — Capable of being lodged.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- lone hand — Cards. a person who holds a hand so strong that he or she can play a deal without the hand of his or her partner. the hand played by such a person.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- lookahead — (computing) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
- lookaside — (computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.
- loosehead — (rugby) prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum.
- lop-eared — having ears that droop or hang down.
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
- lowlander — a native of the Lowlands.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- lullabied — Simple past tense and past participle of lullaby.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- lustihead — lustiness
- lustrated — Simple past tense and past participle of lustrate.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- maculated — Simple past tense and past participle of maculate.
- madeleine — a small shell-shaped cake made of flour, eggs, sugar, and butter and baked in a mold.
- madonsela — Thuli (ˈtʊlɪ). born 1962, South African advocate; in her term as Public Protector (2009–16) she was noted for exposing political corruption