11-letter words containing d, e, f, l, a
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- 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.
- 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-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- 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.
- infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
- ladderproof — unable to ladder; resistant against undoing (of a line of interconnected stitches) as by snagging
- lady friend — female companion
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- land freeze — a legal restraint on the sale or transfer of land.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- 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.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- 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.
- needlecraft — needlework.
- new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
- offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- 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.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- qualifiedly — With qualification; conditionally.
- readme file — (convention, documentation) A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
- relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
- requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- saddle roof — curved covering for a building
- scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- self-caused — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- self-loader — semiautomatic (def 3).
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-regard — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- severalfold — comprising several parts or members.