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11-letter words containing d, i, e, l

  • self-willed — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
  • semi-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
  • semifluidic — of the nature of a semifluid; partially fluidic
  • semiskilled — having or requiring more training and skill than unskilled labor but less than skilled labor.
  • send flying — to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
  • sesquipedal — given to using long words.
  • sex-limited — (of a gene character) expressed in one sex only.
  • 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
  • shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • 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-lining — a line at the side of something.
  • side-saddle — a saddle for women on which the rider sits, facing forward, usually with both feet on the left side of the horse.
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • siecle d'or — the period of the reign of Louis XIV of France.
  • silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • silly-sider — a left-handed person.
  • silver disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 60 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 200 000 copies
  • silversides — any of several small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side, as Menidia menidia, inhabiting the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • single-wide — a mobile home used as a permanent residence.
  • slaked lime — another name for calcium hydroxide, esp when made by adding water to calcium oxide
  • sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
  • slickenside — a rock surface that has become more or less polished and striated by slippage along a fault plane.
  • 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.
  • slime mould — any of various simple spore-producing organisms typically found as slimy masses on rotting vegetation, where they engulf food particles by amoeboid movements. Formerly regarded as fungi, they are now classified as protoctists of the phyla Myxomycota (true, or cellular slime moulds) or Acrasiomycota (plasmodial slime moulds)
  • slow-witted — mentally slow or dull; slow in comprehension and thinking.
  • sluggardise — indolence or laziness
  • sluggardize — to make lazy or sluggish
  • small-sized — small in size
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
  • sockdoliger — a conclusive argument; a hard blow
  • soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.
  • soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
  • soldierlike — resembling a soldier
  • soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
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