11-letter words containing d, i, a, l
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light bread — white bread.
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- 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.
- like a bird — without resistance or difficulty
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- link loader — linker
- lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- 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.
- lipoic acid — sulphur-containing fatty acid
- liquid load — A liquid load is a liquid which is going into or coming out of a distillation stage.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- liquidating — Present participle of liquidate.
- liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- literalized — Simple past tense and past participle of literalize.
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- little hand — the ticking hand on a watch or clock which indicates or points to the hour
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- lizard head — a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.
- loaded dice — dice weighted for cheating
- loading arm — A loading arm is a flexible piping unit that loads and unloads liquids and gases.
- loading bay — dock where cargo is loaded
- local radio — radio services for a particular area, as opposed to radio aimed at a national audience
- loculicidal — (of a capsule) splitting lengthwise so as to divide each locule into two parts.
- londonistan — an informal name for London, as considered by some people as a base for radical Islamists
- long island — an island in SE New York: the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens of New York City are located at its W end. 118 miles (190 km) long; 12–20 miles (19–32 km) wide; 1682 sq. mi. (4356 sq. km).
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- long-haired — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- long-tailed — (of an animal) having a long tail
- longicaudal — having a long tail; macrutous.
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- lucid dream — a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming and can sometimes influence the course of the dream
- lucid emacs — Xemacs
- lund simula — (language) A version of SIMULA from Lund Software House. Version 4.07. (FTP: rascal.ics.utexas.edu/misc/mac/programming/ no longer exists).
- lydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from F to F.
- maddeningly — driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- madrigalist — a composer or singer of madrigals.
- 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.
- maiden lady — an unmarried woman
- mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
- mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.