11-letter words containing d, i, a, l
- roadholding — A vehicle's roadholding is how easy it is to control safely in difficult driving conditions or when going round bends.
- robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
- roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
- ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
- rotary dial — dial (def 4).
- ruridecanal — relating to a rural dean
- sailboarder — windsurfer
- saint kilda — a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic, in the Outer Hebrides: uninhabited since 1930; bird sanctuary
- saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- sales drive — a period of events or activities aimed to promote sales of a particular product or services
- saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
- salvadorian — El Salvador.
- sand lizard — a common lizard, Lacerta agilis, of Europe and central Asia.
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- schizopodal — pertaining to a split-foot or appendage
- sea islands — a chain of islands in the Atlantic off the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
- sealed unit — a hard disk that is permanently sealed to prevent damage to the read/write head
- secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
- semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
- sesquipedal — given to using long words.
- shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
- shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
- side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
- side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
- side-saddle — a saddle for women on which the rider sits, facing forward, usually with both feet on the left side of the horse.
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- sigmoidally — in the form of a sigmoid
- silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
- single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
- sir galahad — (in Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table, destined to regain the Holy Grail; son of Lancelot and Elaine
- skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
- slaked lime — another name for calcium hydroxide, esp when made by adding water to calcium oxide
- slide valve — a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.
- sluggardise — indolence or laziness
- sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
- small-sized — small in size
- snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
- snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- sodomitical — anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
- soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
- solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
- solid-state — designating or pertaining to electronic devices, as transistors or crystals, that can control current without the use of moving parts, heated filaments, or vacuum gaps.
- solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
- sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
- specialised — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.
- specialized — to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty: The doctor specializes in gastroenterology.