11-letter words containing f, e, d, l
- good fellow — a friendly and pleasant person.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- half cocked — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
- half-cooked — not cooked thoroughly
- half-decade — a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
- half-duplex — of or relating to the transmission of information in opposite directions but not simultaneously.
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- halfendeale — a half portion of something
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- heedfulness — The state or quality of being heedful.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- hold in fee — to own; possess
- hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
- 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
- ill-defined — badly or inadequately defined; vague: He confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts.
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ill-founded — based on weak evidence, illogical reasoning, or the like: an ill-founded theory.
- illinformed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian file — in single file.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infield hit — a base hit that does not reach the outfield.
- infield out — a put-out recorded by a member of the infield.
- infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- inside left — (esp formerly) a player having mainly midfield and attacking roles
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
- 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
- land freeze — a legal restraint on the sale or transfer of land.
- 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.
- lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.