11-letter words containing d, i, e, l
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- ida tarbell — Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
- ideal point — the point at infinity in projective geometry at which parallel lines intersect.
- idealogical — Ideologic.
- identically — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- ideological — of or relating to ideology.
- ideologists — Plural form of ideologist.
- ideologized — to explain or express ideologically: to ideologize a political opinion.
- idle pulley — a loose pulley made to press or rest on a belt in order to tighten or guide it.
- 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-advised — acting or done without due consideration; imprudent: an ill-advised remark.
- 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.
- ill-defined — badly or inadequately defined; vague: He confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts.
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ill-founded — based on weak evidence, illogical reasoning, or the like: an ill-founded theory.
- ill-natured — having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.
- ill-starred — doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
- illegalised — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illegalized — Simple past tense and past participle of illegalize.
- illinformed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- illuminated — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
- illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- immediately — without lapse of time; without delay; instantly; at once: Please telephone him immediately.
- immedicable — incurable.
- immedicably — In an immedicable way; incurably.
- immobilised — Simple past tense and past participle of immobilise.
- immobilized — Simple past tense and past participle of immobilize.
- immoralized — to make or cause to be immoral.
- implemented — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
- imprudently — Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
- 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.
- inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisedly — In a manner that is not advisable.
- incidentals — happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- inclined to — deviating in direction from the horizontal or vertical; sloping.
- include out — to exclude
- include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
- incompleted — Incomplete, uncompleted.
- increasedly — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- incredulity — the quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- index plate — a plate perforated with rows of different numbers of equally spaced holes as a guide for indexing work.
- indexically — In an indexical way.
- indian file — in single file.
- indian meal — cornmeal (def 1).