11-letter words containing d, e, g, l, a
- laggardness — The quality or state of being a laggard.
- laggen-gird — the bottom hoop securing the staves of a tub or barrel.
- lake ladoga — a lake in NW Russia, in the SW Karelian Republic: the largest lake in Europe; drains through the River Neva into the Gulf of Finland. Area: about 18 000 sq km (7000 sq miles)
- lallygagged — Simple past tense and past participle of lallygag.
- land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
- landgrabber — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- landing net — a small, bag-shaped net with a handle at the mouth, for scooping a hooked fish out of the water and bringing it to shore or into a boat.
- langue d'oc — the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.
- languidness — The property of being languid.
- lapel badge — pin or button worn on the collar
- laterigrade — having a sideways manner of moving, as a crab.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- lead piping — pipes made of lead
- lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- 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.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- ledger beam — a reinforced-concrete beam having projecting ledges for receiving the ends of joists or the like.
- 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.
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- 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.
- 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.
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
- 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.
- maddeningly — driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- 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.
- mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- maltese dog — one of a breed of toy dogs having a long, straight, silky white coat.
- medicolegal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- metalliding — the creation of an alloy coating by an electrolytic process involving the diffusion of atoms from one metal into the surface of a second metal