11-letter words containing d, e, f, i, l
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- hold in fee — to own; possess
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-defined — badly or inadequately defined; vague: He confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts.
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ill-founded — based on weak evidence, illogical reasoning, or the like: an ill-founded theory.
- illinformed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian file — in single file.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infield hit — a base hit that does not reach the outfield.
- infield out — a put-out recorded by a member of the infield.
- infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- inside left — (esp formerly) a player having mainly midfield and attacking roles
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
- interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
- lady friend — female companion
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- leflunomide — An inhibitor of pyrimidine synthesis, used to treat some forms of arthritis.
- lend itself — to possess the right characteristics or qualities for
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- lift bridge — a bridge having a section that can be lifted vertically to permit passage of boats beneath it.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- liquid fire — flaming petroleum or the like, as employed against an enemy in warfare.
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- microfilmed — Simple past tense and past participle of microfilm.
- midfielders — Plural form of midfielder.
- midget golf — miniature golf.
- mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
- mindfulness — the state or quality of being mindful or aware of something.
- multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
- new milford — a town in W Connecticut.
- oil of cade — a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- old flemish — the Flemish language before c1300.
- outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- prime field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
- qualifiedly — With qualification; conditionally.