11-letter words containing l, a, d, e, r, i
- field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
- field trial — a competition among sporting dogs under natural conditions in the field, in which the animals are judged on the basis of excellence of performance in hunting.
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- fire island — a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- foliar feed — a substance containing nutrients that is applied to the leaves of a plant
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- galliardise — the state of being gay or merry
- generalised — Alternative spelling of generalized.
- generalized — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- girdlestead — the waist
- glacierized — Modified by the action of glaciers.
- glamourized — Simple past tense and past participle of glamourize.
- goldbergian — Rube Goldberg.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- graveldiver — any of several eellike fishes of the family Scytalinidae, found off the Pacific coast of North America, especially Scytalina cerdale, which burrows among rocks.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- grenadelike — Resembling a grenade (weapon).
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- grindelwald — a valley and resort in central Switzerland, in the Bernese Oberland: mountaineering centre, with the Wetterhorn and the Eiger nearby
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- 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.
- haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
- hang glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hereditable — heritable.
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
- hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- id bracelet — a bracelet, usually of metal links, having an identification plate for the name of the wearer.
- ida tarbell — Ida Minerva, 1857–1944, U.S. author.
- 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-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ill-natured — having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.