10-letter words containing l, e, d
- adobe flat — a gently sloping clayey plain formed by a short-lived stream or flood water
- adolescent — Adolescent is used to describe young people who are no longer children but who have not yet become adults. It also refers to their behaviour.
- adoptively — in an adoptive manner; by adoption
- adrenaline — a hormone that is secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress and increases heart rate, pulse rate, and blood pressure, and raises the blood levels of glucose and lipids. It is extracted from animals or synthesized for such medical uses as the treatment of asthma. Chemical name: aminohydroxyphenylpropionic acid; formula: C9H13NO3
- adrenalise — (British spelling) To render frightening or thrilling, such as to stimulate the production of adrenalin.
- adrenalize — to stir to action; excite: The promise of victory adrenalized the team.
- adrenalone — An adrenergic agonist used as a topical vasoconstrictor and hemostatic.
- adrianople — Edirne
- adsorbable — Able to be adsorbed.
- adullamite — a person who has withdrawn from a political group and joined with a few others to form a dissident group
- adult home — any of various private residences for former state psychiatric patients, supervised by a department of a state or city government.
- adulterant — a substance or ingredient that adulterates
- adulterate — If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
- adulterers — Plural form of adulterer.
- adulteress — An adulteress is a woman who commits adultery.
- adulterine — of or made by adulteration; fake
- adulterize — to commit adultery
- adulterous — An adulterous relationship is a sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to. An adulterous person is someone who commits adultery.
- adverbials — Plural form of adverbial.
- adviseable — Alternative spelling of advisable.
- aedileship — the office of an aedile, or the duration of an aedile's term of office
- aedilitian — one of a board of magistrates in charge of public buildings, streets, markets, games, etc.
- affectedly — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affiliated — If an organization is affiliated with another larger organization, it is officially connected with the larger organization or is a member of it.
- affordable — If something is affordable, most people have enough money to buy it.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death
- agendaless — without an agenda; unplanned; purposeless
- agitatedly — excited; disturbed.
- agonizedly — in an agonized way
- air-cooled — An air-cooled engine is prevented from getting too hot when it is running by cool air that passes over it, rather than being cooled by a liquid.
- air-logged — (of a pump or system of piping) hindered in its functioning by an air lock; air-bound.
- alabandite — a mineral form of manganese sulphide (MnS) with cubic crystals
- albumenoid — Alternative form of albuminoid.
- alchemized — Simple past tense and past participle of alchemize.
- alcibiades — 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)
- alderflies — Plural form of alderfly.
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- aldermanly — pompous
- aldermanry — the district, office, or rank of an alderman.
- alderwoman — (in England and Wales until 1974) one of the senior female members of a local council, elected by other councillors
- alderwomen — Plural form of alderwoman.
- aldohexose — any aldose containing six carbon atoms, such as glucose or mannose
- aldotriose — (carbohydrate) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde.
- aleixandre — Vicente (viˈθɛnte). 1898–1984, Spanish poet, whose collections include La destrucción o el amor (1935; Destruction or Love): Nobel prize for literature 1977
- alessandra — a female given name, Italian form of Alexandra.
- alessandri — Jorge [hawr-he] /ˈhɔr hɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1986, Chilean engineer and statesman: president 1958–64.
- alessandro — Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- alexanders — a biennial umbelliferous plant, Smyrnium olusatrum, native to S Europe, with dense umbels of yellow-green flowers and black fruits
- alexandria — the chief port of Egypt, on the Nile Delta: cultural centre of ancient times, founded by Alexander the Great (332 bc). Pop: 3 760 000 (2005 est)
- alexandros — Alexander (def 2).