11-letter words containing d, e, n, i, a, l
- fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallen idol — If you refer to someone as a fallen idol, you mean that they have lost people's respect and admiration because of something bad that they have done.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- fire island — a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- gallivanted — Simple past tense and past participle of gallivant.
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gelatinated — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinate.
- gelatinized — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinize.
- generalised — Alternative spelling of generalized.
- generalized — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- geniculated — Geniculate.
- giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
- glide plane — a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
- goaltending — goalkeeping.
- goldbeating — the art or process of beating out gold into gold leaf.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- 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.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- 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.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- 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.
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- ideal point — the point at infinity in projective geometry at which parallel lines intersect.
- identically — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- ill-natured — having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.
- illuminated — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
- inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt