11-letter words containing i, l, s, o, d
- groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hispidulous — covered with stiff, short hairs.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hydrologist — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- idaho falls — a city in E Idaho.
- ideologists — Plural form of ideologist.
- idioglossia — a private form of speech invented by one child or by children who are in close contact, as twins.
- idolisation — Alternative spelling of idolization.
- immobilised — Simple past tense and past participle of immobilise.
- incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indubiously — Synonym of without a doubt.
- inodorously — in an inodorous manner
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inside loop — a loop during which the top of the airplane is on the inner side of the curve described by the course of flight.
- insidiously — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- invidiously — In an invidious manner.
- iridologist — the inspection of the iris of the eye as an aid in determining a person's state of health or in diagnosing a health problem.
- judiciously — using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic: judicious use of one's money.
- landlordism — the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.
- lanthanoids — Plural form of lanthanoid.
- lasiocampid — (zoology) Any member of the Lasiocampidae.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- lepidosiren — a lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa, of the Amazon, having an eel-shaped body.
- lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
- likelihoods — Plural form of likelihood.
- linseed oil — a drying oil obtained by pressing flaxseed, used in making paints, printing inks, linoleum, etc.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- lithodomous — living in rock or stone
- livelihoods — Plural form of livelihood.
- lobotomised — to perform a lobotomy on.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- londonistan — an informal name for London, as considered by some people as a base for radical Islamists
- long island — an island in SE New York: the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens of New York City are located at its W end. 118 miles (190 km) long; 12–20 miles (19–32 km) wide; 1682 sq. mi. (4356 sq. km).
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- low-density — having a low concentration.
- loxodromics — the technique of navigating according to loxodromes or rhumb lines.
- ludicrously — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lycopodiums — Plural form of lycopodium.
- lyophilised — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order