11-letter words containing i, l, e, s
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dollishness — The quality of being dollish.
- doltishness — The characteristic of being doltish.
- dongle-disk — /don'gl disk/ (Or "key disk") A kind of dongle consisting of a special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify it uniquely, others *are* special code that does something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. For example, AT&T's "Unix PC" would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.
- dorsiflexor — a muscle causing dorsiflexion.
- doubled sig — A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See BIFF, pseudo.
- doublewides — Plural form of doublewide.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drill press — a drilling machine having a single vertical spindle.
- drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
- du guesclin — Bertrand [ber-trahn] /bɛrˈtrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), ("the Eagle of Brittany") c1320–80, French military leader: constable of France 1370–80.
- dulcimerist — Someone who plays the dulcimer.
- duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
- duodecimals — Plural form of duodecimal.
- dutifulness — The state of being dutiful.
- dyspeptical — (archaic) dyspeptic.
- early music — music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.
- early riser — person: gets up early
- earthliness — of or relating to the earth, especially as opposed to heaven; worldly.
- east anglia — an early English kingdom in SE Britain: modern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- east berlin — a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.
- east moline — a city in NW Illinois.
- easter lily — any of several white-flowered lilies that are artificially brought into bloom in early spring, especially Lilium longiflorum eximium, native to Taiwan and widely cultivated.
- ebola virus — a highly contagious virus of the family Filoviridae that causes Ebola, a usually fatal disease.
- ebullitions — Plural form of ebullition.
- ecblastesis — a condition of flower production in plants in which buds occur within flowers and thereby produce extremely large blooms
- ecclesiarch — a sacristan, especially of a monastery.
- eclecticism — the use or advocacy of an eclectic method.
- eclecticist — selecting or choosing from various sources.
- ecopolitics — the study of the interrelation between political and ecological issues and problems.
- ecovillages — Plural form of ecovillage.
- ectoplasmic — Relating to, or having the properties or appearance of, ectoplasm.
- ectoplastic — ectoplasmic
- edi analyst — (job) A person who introduces EDI standards and technology. An EDI analyst makes decisions for information construction and selects resources for EDI processing and application expansion. He coordinates processing and transmission schedules and mapping of standard data formats. He generally serves as a key contact for trading partners and value-added network consultants.
- egotistical — Excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself; self-centered.
- egregiously — Conspicuously badly (used negatively).
- eigenvalues — Plural form of eigenvalue.
- eksi sozluk — (web) ("Sour Dictionary") An online, Turkish, colaborative, hypertext dictionary.
- elastically — In an elastic manner.
- elasticated — (of a garment or material) made elastic by the insertion of rubber thread or tape.
- elasticised — Simple past tense and past participle of elasticise.
- elasticized — Simple past tense and past participle of elasticize.
- elasticness — the state or quality of being elastic
- elastomeric — Of, pertaining to, or containing elastomers.
- elderliness — The quality or state of being elderly.
- electricals — Plural form of electrical.
- electrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrify.
- electronics — (physics) The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles.
- electuaries — Plural form of electuary.
- eliminators — Plural form of eliminator.