11-letter words containing d, e, l, h, i
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homologized — Simple past tense and past participle of homologize.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
- hyperlinked — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperlink.
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- 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-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- in the cold — outside, exposed to cold weather
- in the wild — Animals that live in the wild live in a free and natural state and are not looked after by people.
- infield hit — a base hit that does not reach the outfield.
- inner child — Some psychologists refer to a person's childish feelings as his or her inner child.
- laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.
- lanthanides — Plural form of lanthanide.
- lead weight — a weight made of lead
- leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- liddel hart — Sir Basil (Henry) 1895–1970, English military authority and writer.
- light bread — white bread.
- light guide — optical fiber.
- 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.
- lightninged — a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
- likelihoods — Plural form of likelihood.
- lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lithopedion — (medical) A calcium-encased foetus that occurs in ectopic abdominal pregnancies when the foetus dies and is not reabsorbed by the maternal body, whereby the maternal system encases the foreign body (foetus) in calcium to isolate it.
- little hand — the ticking hand on a watch or clock which indicates or points to the hour
- livelihoods — Plural form of livelihood.
- lizard head — a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.
- long-haired — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- low-pitched — pitched in a low register or key: a low-pitched aria for the basso.
- lüdenscheid — a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: manufacturing centre for aluminium and plastics. Pop: 79 829 (2003 est)
- lyophilised — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- lyophilized — Simple past tense and past participle of lyophilize.
- melchizedek — a priest and king of Salem. Gen. 14:18.
- melolonthid — any of various scarab beetles whose larvae feed chiefly on roots, including the cockchafers and June bugs
- methylidene — (organic chemistry) The CH2= radical in which the free valences are part of a double bond.
- middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
- middlemarch — a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.