11-letter words containing i, d, e, a, l
- 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.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- like a bird — without resistance or difficulty
- limited war — a war conducted with less than a nation's total resources and restricted in aim to less than total defeat of the enemy.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- link loader — linker
- lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lip-reading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- literalized — Simple past tense and past participle of literalize.
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- little hand — the ticking hand on a watch or clock which indicates or points to the hour
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- lizard head — a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.
- loaded dice — dice weighted for cheating
- long-haired — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- long-tailed — (of an animal) having a long tail
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- lucid dream — a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming and can sometimes influence the course of the dream
- lucid emacs — Xemacs
- lydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from F to F.
- maddeningly — driving to madness or frenzy: a maddening thirst.
- magdalenian — of or relating to the final Paleolithic culture of much of western Europe, dating from c13,000–10,000 b.c. and notable for its artifacts of bone, antler, and ivory and for the cave art of western France and northeastern Spain.
- maiden lady — an unmarried woman
- mail bridge — (messaging) A mail gateway that forwards electronic mail messages between two or more networks if they meet certain administrative criteria.
- mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- maleic acid — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 4 H 4 O 4 , isomeric with fumaric acid, having an astringent, repulsive taste and faint acidulous odor: used in the manufacture of synthetic resins, the dyeing and finishing of textiles, and as a preservative for fats and oils.
- malted milk — a soluble powder made of dehydrated milk and malted cereals.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
- mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
- maudlinness — The quality of being maudlin.
- maxillipeds — Plural form of maxilliped.
- meadow lily — Canada lily.
- medallioned — having or wearing a medallion or medallions