12-letter words containing d, e, t, a, i, l
- iodized salt — common table salt to which a small amount of sodium iodide or potassium iodide has been added
- isolated set — Mathematics. a set containing none of its accumulation points, consisting, therefore, of only isolated points.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
- lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
- leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- liddell hart — (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
- maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
- man-tailored — (of women's clothing) tailored in the general style and with the details of men's clothing. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- materialised — Simple past tense and past participle of materialise.
- materialized — Simple past tense and past participle of materialize.
- matinee idol — a male actor, usually a leading man, idolized especially by female audiences.
- matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- metered mail — mail on which the postage is printed directly on an envelope or label by a machine licensed by the postal service.
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- middle latin — Medieval Latin
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- midlatitudes — Areas lying between 35 and 55 (or more broadly, between 30 and 60) degrees north or south of the equator.
- misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
- mud filtrate — Mud filtrate is the liquid part of the mud which can pass through a medium and become separated from the mudcake.
- multi-medial — the combined use of several media, as sound and full-motion video in computer applications.
- multidecadal — Involving multiple decades.