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11-letter words containing f, a, l, d

  • interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
  • ladderproof — unable to ladder; resistant against undoing (of a line of interconnected stitches) as by snagging
  • lady friend — female companion
  • ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
  • lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
  • lamb of god — Christ.
  • land freeze — a legal restraint on the sale or transfer of land.
  • land of nod — the mythical land of sleep.
  • land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
  • land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
  • lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
  • latifundium — a great estate.
  • lay hold of — to seize or grasp
  • lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
  • leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
  • left-handed — having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
  • left-hander — a person who is left-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the left hand.
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
  • light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
  • lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
  • lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
  • load factor — the amount or weight of cargo, number of passengers, etc., that an aircraft, vehicle, or vessel can carry.
  • mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
  • millifarads — Plural form of millifarad.
  • multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
  • mutual fund — an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.
  • myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
  • needlecraft — needlework.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • nullifidian — a person who has no faith or religion; skeptic.
  • offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
  • officialdom — the class or entire body of officials; officials as a whole.
  • oil of cade — a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
  • old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
  • paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • qualifiedly — With qualification; conditionally.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
  • requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • saddle roof — curved covering for a building
  • sam hold of — to collect; gather up
  • scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
  • self-caused — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
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