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

  • heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
  • heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
  • heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
  • heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • hinderlands — the buttocks
  • hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
  • hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
  • hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
  • hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
  • hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
  • 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
  • laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.
  • lanthanides — Plural form of lanthanide.
  • leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
  • leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
  • likelihoods — Plural form of likelihood.
  • lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • livelihoods — Plural form of livelihood.
  • longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
  • loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
  • lüdenscheid — a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: manufacturing centre for aluminium and plastics. Pop: 79 829 (2003 est)
  • lyophilised — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
  • old flemish — the Flemish language before c1300.
  • old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
  • ophicleides — Plural form of ophicleide.
  • oxysulphide — a compound containing an element combined with oxygen and sulphur
  • psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
  • psychedelic — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
  • psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
  • replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • riot shield — Riot shields are pieces of equipment made of transparent plastic which are used by the police to protect themselves against angry crowds.
  • scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
  • 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.
  • siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
  • sidewheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • 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.
  • silk thread — thread that is manufactured from silk
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • sleigh ride — trip on a sledge
  • soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
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