10-letter words containing d, l, s
- ladies aid — a local organization of women who raise money for their church.
- ladieswear — clothes designed for women
- lady's man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- lammas day — August 1, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival. In Scotland Lammas is a quarter day
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lamp-shade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshades — Plural form of lampshade.
- land snail — any gastropod of the widely distributed order Stylommatophora, containing usually small, brown or mottled hermaphroditic snails: some more colorful species, introduced into North America, are agricultural pests.
- land's end — a cape in Cornwall that forms the SW tip of England.
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- landgraves — Plural form of landgrave.
- landladies — Plural form of landlady.
- landmasses — Plural form of landmass.
- landowners — Plural form of landowner.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- landslides — Plural form of landslide.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- laser disc — video, audio format: optical disc
- laser disk — Computers, Television. optical disk.
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- laudations — Plural form of laudation.
- laudianism — the policies and practices of Archbishop Laud or his supporters.
- launderers — Plural form of launderer.
- lead glass — glass containing lead oxide.
- lead screw — (on a lathe) a rotating horizontal screw for moving the tool carriage along the work at a constant rate.
- lead sheet — a copy of a song containing the melody line, sometimes along with the lyrics and the notations indicating the harmonic structure.
- lead story — the principal story in a newspaper
- leadenness — The quality of being leaden.
- leaderless — a person or thing that leads.
- leadership — 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.
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- leaf scald — a bacterial disease of sugarcane, characterized by irregular, bleached streaks on the leaves and defoliation and caused especially by Bacterium albilineans.
- lease-lend — material assistance to an ally
- leaseholds — Plural form of leasehold.
- lederhosen — Leather shorts with H-shaped suspenders, traditionally worn by men in Alpine regions such as Bavaria.
- leg shield — a part on a motorcycle, scooter, etc, that protects the legs of the rider or of a passenger
- legendries — Plural form of legendry.
- legislated — Simple past tense and past participle of legislate.
- lemon soda — a sweet fizzy drink that tastes of lemon
- lend-lease — the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- lespedezas — Plural form of lespedeza.