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11-letter words containing m, d, l

  • numbskulled — (informal) stupid.
  • officialdom — the class or entire body of officials; officials as a whole.
  • old flemish — the Flemish language before c1300.
  • old kingdom — the period in the history of ancient Egypt, 2780–2280 b.c., comprising the 3rd to 6th dynasties, characterized by the predominance of Memphis.
  • old-maidish — characteristic of or resembling an old maid.
  • osteodermal — characterized by osteoderms
  • overmuscled — having muscles developed to excess
  • overwhelmed — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
  • pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • 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.
  • palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
  • palm reader — fortune teller who interprets hand lines
  • palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
  • palmer land — the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • 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.
  • permittedly — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
  • plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
  • plasmodesma — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
  • podophyllum — the dried rhizome of the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, from which podophyllin is derived.
  • powder mill — a mill in which gunpowder is made.
  • pre-diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
  • premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
  • premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
  • prime field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
  • prime ideal — an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, having the property that when the product of two elements of the ring results in an element of the ideal, at least one of the elements is an element of the ideal.
  • promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • pyramidical — pyramidal.
  • quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
  • quitclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of quitclaim.
  • random line — a trial survey line run from a station toward a predetermined point that cannot be seen from the station.
  • random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • red admiral — the commander in chief of a fleet.
  • remodelling — to model again.
  • ride cymbal — a medium-sized cymbal suspended over a set of drums, used for maintaining rhythm patterns since the advent of bop
  • riding lamp — a light on a boat or ship showing that it is at anchor
  • rollerdrome — a venue for roller-skating to music
  • roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
  • salad cream — Salad cream is a pale-yellow creamy sauce that you eat with salad.
  • sam hold of — to collect; gather up
  • 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.
  • scale model — a drawing which has been reduced or enlarged from its original size, to a specified scale
  • scleroderma — a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
  • sealed move — the last move before an adjournment, which is written down by the player making it, sealed in an envelope, and kept secret from his opponent until play is resumed
  • sealed-beam — a headlight in which the reflector and lens are hermetically sealed together with the filament in a single unit.
  • self-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
  • self-minded — having a certain kind of mind (usually used in combination): strong-minded.
  • self-murder — suicide
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