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11-letter words containing n, i, d, l, e

  • kinderspiel — a play or piece of musical theatre performed by children
  • knowledging — Present participle of knowledge.
  • labiodental — articulated with the lower lip touching the upper front teeth, as f or v, or, rarely, with the upper lip touching the lower front teeth.
  • laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.
  • ladies' man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
  • lady friend — female companion
  • ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
  • laggen-gird — the bottom hoop securing the staves of a tub or barrel.
  • lamebrained — a dunce; booby; fool.
  • land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
  • land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
  • landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
  • landing net — a small, bag-shaped net with a handle at the mouth, for scooping a hooked fish out of the water and bringing it to shore or into a boat.
  • landsteiner — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1943, Austrian pathologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1930.
  • languidness — The property of being languid.
  • lanthanides — Plural form of lanthanide.
  • lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
  • launderings — Plural form of laundering.
  • lead pencil — a writing or drawing implement made of graphite in a wooden or metal holder.
  • lead piping — pipes made of lead
  • lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
  • leading dog — a dog trained to lead a flock of sheep to prevent them breaking or stampeding
  • leading man — an actor who plays the principal male role in a motion picture or play.
  • leased line — (communications, networking)   A private telephone circuit permanently connecting two points, normally provided on a lease by a local PTT.
  • led printer — (printer)   (Or "LED page printer") A printer which is similar in operation to a laser printer, but where an array of LEDs is used in place of the laser.
  • ledger line — Also, leger line. Also called added line. Music. a short line added when necessary above or below the staff to increase the range of the staff.
  • leflunomide — An inhibitor of pyrimidine synthesis, used to treat some forms of arthritis.
  • legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
  • legendarily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
  • legerdemain — sleight of hand.
  • lemon drink — a drink made from lemon juice or that tastes of lemon
  • lend itself — to possess the right characteristics or qualities for
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • lepidosiren — a lungfish, Lepidosiren paradoxa, of the Amazon, having an eel-shaped body.
  • liederkranz — a German choral society or singing club, especially of men.
  • lightninged — a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
  • like-minded — having a similar or identical opinion, disposition, etc.: a like-minded friend.
  • limitedness — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
  • lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
  • lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
  • line editor — (tool, text)   An early kind of text editor suited to use on a teletype. The user enters editing commands which apply to the current line or some given range of lines. These include moving forward and backward through the buffer, inserting and deleting lines, substituting a string for a pattern match, and printing lines. Visual feedback is restricted to explicitly requesting the display of one or more lines, in contrast to a screen editor.
  • link editor — linker
  • link loader — linker
  • linked list — (programming)   A data structure in which each element contains a pointer to the next element, thus forming a linear list. A doubly linked list contains pointers to both the next and previous elements.
  • linseed oil — a drying oil obtained by pressing flaxseed, used in making paints, printing inks, linoleum, etc.
  • lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
  • 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.
  • lis pendens — a pending suit listed on the court docket.
  • lithopedion — (medical) A calcium-encased foetus that occurs in ectopic abdominal pregnancies when the foetus dies and is not reabsorbed by the maternal body, whereby the maternal system encases the foreign body (foetus) in calcium to isolate it.
  • little hand — the ticking hand on a watch or clock which indicates or points to the hour
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