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11-letter words containing l, a, p, d, i

  • haloperidol — a major antipsychotic agent, C 21 H 23 ClFNO 2 , used in the management of schizophrenia, severe anxiety, and other behavioral disorders.
  • highly paid — that receives a large salary
  • holiday pay — the salary a worker receives for days taken off work
  • holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
  • hyperlydian — relating to the highest scale or mode in ancient Greek music
  • ideal point — the point at infinity in projective geometry at which parallel lines intersect.
  • inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
  • index plate — a plate perforated with rows of different numbers of equally spaced holes as a guide for indexing work.
  • induplicate — folded or rolled inward: said of the parts of the calyx or corolla when the edges are bent abruptly toward the axis, or of leaves in vernation when the edges are rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping.
  • lake placid — a town in NE New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: resort.
  • lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
  • landscaping — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • landscapist — an artist who paints landscapes.
  • lap dancing — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
  • lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
  • lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
  • lasiocampid — (zoology) Any member of the Lasiocampidae.
  • lead pencil — a writing or drawing implement made of graphite in a wooden or metal holder.
  • lead piping — pipes made of lead
  • leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
  • leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
  • led display — a flat-screen device in which an array of light-emitting diodes can be selectively activated to display numerical and alphabetical information, used esp in pocket calculators, digital timepieces, measuring instruments, and in some microcomputers
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • lepidoptera — the order comprising the lepidopterous insects.
  • 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.
  • lipoic acid — sulphur-containing fatty acid
  • lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
  • maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
  • manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
  • maxillipeds — Plural form of maxilliped.
  • metapodials — Plural form of metapodial.
  • middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
  • mispleading — a mistake in pleading, as a misjoinder of parties or a misstatement of a cause of action.
  • mpls domain — (networking)   A portion of a network that contains devices that understand MPLS.
  • nodal point — either of two points on the axis of a lens or other optical system, determined by extending an incident oblique ray and the corresponding refracted ray to the axis for the pair of rays that are parallel outside the optical system.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
  • overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
  • paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
  • paedophilia — Paedophilia is sexual activity with children or the condition of being sexually attracted to children.
  • palatalized — Phonetics. pronounced with secondary palatal articulation.
  • palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • palladinize — to treat or cover (a surface) with palladium.
  • panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
  • paradoxical — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • paragliding — a sport resembling hang gliding, in which a person jumps from an aircraft or high place wearing a wide, rectangular, steerable parachute.
  • paramedical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
  • parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
  • partialized — to bias.
  • pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
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