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11-letter words containing d, u, l, y

  • mal du pays — homesickness.
  • many-valued — (of a function) having the property that some elements in the domain have more than one image point; multiple-valued.
  • melodiously — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
  • misguidedly — misled; mistaken: Their naive actions were a misguided attempt to help the poor.
  • molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
  • molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
  • monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
  • mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • murderously — In a murderous manner; as if wanting to commit murder; extremely angrily.
  • old country — the original home country of an immigrant or a person's ancestors, especially a European country.
  • oxysulphide — a compound containing an element combined with oxygen and sulphur
  • palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
  • pellucidity — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
  • pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
  • perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • pilot study — trial done for research
  • plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
  • play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
  • podophyllum — the dried rhizome of the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, from which podophyllin is derived.
  • polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
  • polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
  • ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
  • quadricycle — a vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
  • qualifiedly — With qualification; conditionally.
  • quotidianly — daily: a quotidian report.
  • rally round — show solidarity
  • reductively — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • redundantly — characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • scoundrelly — having the character of a scoundrel; unscrupulous; villainous.
  • sculduddery — obscene behavior; lewdness.
  • sculduggery — skulduggery.
  • sdeignfully — disdainfully
  • seductively — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
  • skulduddery — (of people) adultery
  • skulduggery — dishonorable proceedings; mean dishonesty or trickery: bribery, graft, and other such skulduggery.
  • sooty mould — a fungal plant disease characterized by a blackish growth covering the surface of leaves, fruits, etc
  • southwardly — toward the south
  • study leave — sabbatical
  • stylopodium — a glandular disk or expansion surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family.
  • subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
  • subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
  • suicidology — the study of the causes and prevention of suicide.
  • sulfide dye — any of the class of dyes produced by heating an organic compound, as an indophenol, with sulfur or sodium polysulfide, used chiefly in dyeing cotton.
  • sulphhydryl — the univalent radical group -SH
  • supply-side — of or relating to a theory that stresses the reduction of taxes, especially for those of higher income, as a means of encouraging business investment and growth and stabilizing the economy.
  • suspectedly — so as to arouse suspicion
  • syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
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