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11-letter words containing l, a, u, d, b, e

  • double back — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double bass — the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played.
  • double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
  • double date — two couples meeting socially
  • double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
  • double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
  • double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
  • double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
  • double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
  • double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • double-bank — to have two rowers pull (each of a number of oars).
  • double-date — to take part in a double date.
  • double-deal — to practice double-dealing.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
  • double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
  • double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
  • durableness — Durability.
  • educability — capable of being educated.
  • half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
  • husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
  • husbandless — Without a husband.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • indubitable — that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
  • infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
  • landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
  • lateral bud — axillary bud.
  • launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
  • lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
  • lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
  • mandibulate — having mandibles.
  • multibladed — having multiple blades
  • non-audible — capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard.
  • nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
  • outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
  • redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
  • tabularised — to tabulate.
  • tabularized — to tabulate.
  • tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
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