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11-letter words containing l, a, n, d, s

  • riding sail — a triangular sail set on the aftermost mast of a vessel, especially a fishing vessel, to head it into the wind; trysail.
  • ringed seal — an Arctic seal, Phoca hispida, having irregular, pale, ring-shaped markings around its body.
  • robbinsdale — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
  • rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
  • saddle horn — horn (def 19).
  • saint kilda — a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic, in the Outer Hebrides: uninhabited since 1930; bird sanctuary
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • salad green — a leafy green vegetable, as lettuce, watercress, or escarole, served raw as or in a salad.
  • saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
  • salvadorian — El Salvador.
  • san leandro — a city in W California.
  • sand castle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
  • sand dollar — any of various flat, disklike sea urchins, as Mellita testudinata or Echinarachnius parma, that live on sandy bottoms off the coasts of the U.S.
  • sand lizard — a common lizard, Lacerta agilis, of Europe and central Asia.
  • sand myrtle — an evergreen shrub, Leiophyllum buxifolium, of the heath family, native to the eastern U.S., having simple, leathery leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
  • sand-castle — a small castlelike structure made of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
  • sandculture — the hydroponic cultivation of plants in sand.
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
  • scent gland — any of various specialized skin glands, occurring in many kinds of animals, that emit an odor commonly functioning as a social or sexual signal or a defensive weapon.
  • schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
  • scolopendra — a member of a genus of centipedes belonging to the Scolopendridae family
  • sea islands — a chain of islands in the Atlantic off the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
  • sealed unit — a hard disk that is permanently sealed to prevent damage to the read/write head
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
  • shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
  • shell gland — a gland in certain invertebrates that secretes the components required for forming the shell of an egg
  • side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
  • side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
  • slant board — a tiltable board that allows a person to lie with the feet higher than the head while doing exercises.
  • slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
  • solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
  • sonderclass — a special class of small racing yachts, restricted as to size, sail area, cost, etc.
  • sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
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