11-letter words containing d, r, e, a, l
- land worker — a person who works on the land
- land-holder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- landgrabber — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- landholders — Plural form of landholder.
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- landscapers — Plural form of landscaper.
- landsteiner — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1943, Austrian pathologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1930.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- lateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralise.
- lateralized — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralize.
- laterigrade — having a sideways manner of moving, as a crab.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- launderette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- laundresses — Plural form of laundress.
- layer board — lear board.
- laze around — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- lead astray — tempt into bad behaviour
- lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
- leader head — a boxlike head of a downspout connected to a gutter.
- 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.
- leaderboard — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
- leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- learnedness — The quality of being learned.
- leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
- leatherhead — any of various Australasian honeyeaters, especially of the genus Philemon.
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- ledger beam — a reinforced-concrete beam having projecting ledges for receiving the ends of joists or the like.
- left-hander — a person who is left-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the left hand.
- legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legendarily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- lend an ear — listen to sb
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- lepidoptera — the order comprising the lepidopterous insects.
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- letter card — a large postal card, with gummed edges, that can be folded lengthwise and sealed with the message inside.
- letter-card — a large postal card, with gummed edges, that can be folded lengthwise and sealed with the message inside.
- letterheads — Plural form of letterhead.
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- liard-river — a river in W Canada, flowing from S Yukon through N British Columbia and the Northwest Territories into the Mackenzie River. 550 miles (885 km) long.
- liberalised — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalise.
- liberalized — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalize.
- liddel hart — Sir Basil (Henry) 1895–1970, English military authority and writer.
- liederkranz — a German choral society or singing club, especially of men.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light bread — white bread.