9-letter words containing d, i, e, l
- lightered — Simple past tense and past participle of lighter.
- lignified — to convert into wood; cause to become woody.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- limitedly — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
- lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
- lindegren — Erik (Johan) [ey-rik yoo-hahn] /ˈeɪ rɪk ˈyu hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1910–68, Swedish poet and literary critic.
- lindemann — Frederick Alexander, 1st Viscount Cherwell. 1886–1957, British physicist, born in Germany; Churchill's scientific adviser during World War II
- lindesnes — a cape at the S tip of Norway, on the North Sea.
- line drop — the decrease in voltage between two points on an electric line, often caused by resistance or leakage along the line.
- line feed — (character) (LF, control-J, ASCII 10) The ASCII character meaning move the cursor down to the same column on the next line. Originally this would have been done by "feeding" paper through the printer.
- linenfold — an ornamental motif resembling folded linen, carved on paneling.
- linenized — made or finished to resemble the texture of linen cloth.
- linewidth — (physics) a measure of the width of the band of frequencies of radiation emitted or absorbed in an atomic or molecular transition; a result of the uncertainty principle.
- link-dead — Said of a MUD character who has frozen in place because of a dropped network connection.
- lintelled — furnished with or having a lintel
- lipidemia — (medicine) The presence of lipids in the blood.
- lippitude — the state of having bleary or sore eyes
- liquefied — Alternative spelling of liquified.
- liquidate — to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
- liquidise — (British) alternative spelling of liquidize.
- liquidize — to make liquid; liquefy.
- liquified — Converted into a liquid state.
- lithified — Simple past tense and past participle of lithify.
- litigated — Simple past tense and past participle of litigate.
- live data — 1. Data that is written to be interpreted and takes over program flow when triggered by some un-obvious operation, such as viewing it. One use of such hacks is to break security. For example, some smart terminals have commands that allow one to download strings to program keys; this can be used to write live data that, when listed to the terminal, infects it with a security-breaking virus that is triggered the next time a hapless user strikes that key. For another, there are some well-known bugs in vi that allow certain texts to send arbitrary commands back to the machine when they are simply viewed. 2. In C, data that includes pointers to functions (executable code). 3. An object, such as a trampoline, that is constructed on the fly by a program and intended to be executed as code. 4. Actual real-world data, as opposed to "test data". For example, "I think I have the record deletion module finished." "Have you tried it out on live data?" This usage usually carries the connotation that live data is more fragile and must not be corrupted, or bad things will happen. So a more appropriate response to the above claim might be: "Well, make sure it works perfectly before we throw live data at it." The implication here is that record deletion is something pretty significant, and a haywire record-deletion module running amok on live data would probably cause great harm.
- live down — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- live load — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- lividness — The state or condition of being livid (dark or pallid).
- load line — Also called Plimsoll line. any of various lines marked on the sides of a cargo vessel to indicate the depth to which a vessel may be immersed under certain conditions. Compare freeboard (def 1a).
- localised — localisation
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- locked in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lodicules — Plural form of lodicule.
- logaoedic — composed of dactyls and trochees or of anapests and iambs, producing a movement somewhat suggestive of prose.
- logopedic — the study and treatment of speech defects.
- longitude — Geography. angular distance east or west on the earth's surface, measured by the angle contained between the meridian of a particular place and some prime meridian, as that of Greenwich, England, and expressed either in degrees or by some corresponding difference in time.
- lookaside — (computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.
- loudening — Present participle of louden.
- love bird — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- lovebirds — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- lovechild — A child born to parents who aren't married to one another.
- low rider — an individually decorated and customized car fitted with hydraulic jacks that permit lowering of the chassis nearly to the road.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- lucidness — the quality of being easily understood, completely intelligible, or comprehensible: She makes her argument with pointed logic and exemplary lucidity.
- lullabied — Simple past tense and past participle of lullaby.
- luridness — The property of being lurid.
- lustihead — lustiness
- luvviedom — the world of actors and the theatre
- lynnfield — a town in NE Massachusetts.
- lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried