11-letter words containing n, i, d, l
- expediently — In an expedient manner.
- fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallen idol — If you refer to someone as a fallen idol, you mean that they have lost people's respect and admiration because of something bad that they have done.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- feeder line — a branch of a main transportation line, as of an airline or railroad.
- fender pile — a pile, usually one of a group, set beside ferry slips, wharves, etc., to guide approaching vessels and driven so as to yield slightly when struck in order to lessen the shock of contact.
- field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
- field event — an event in a track meet that involves throwing something, as a discus or javelin, or jumping and is not performed on the running track.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- findability — (information science) The quality of a particular object being locatable.
- fire island — a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- flood plain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- floodplains — Plural form of floodplain.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- fluid ounce — a measure of capacity equal to 1/16 (0.0625) pint (29.6 milliliters) in the U.S., and equal to 1/20 (0.05) of an imperial pint (28.4 milliliters) in Great Britain. Symbol: f. Abbreviation: fl. oz;
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- freeholding — Property held in freehold.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- friendliest — Superlative form of friendly.
- fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
- fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
- funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- gallivanted — Simple past tense and past participle of gallivant.
- gallovidian — a native or inhabitant of Galloway
- ganglioside — any of a class of glycolipids, found chiefly in nerve ganglia, that upon hydrolysis yield sphingosine, neuraminic acid, a fatty acid, and a monosaccharide.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gelatinated — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinate.
- gelatinized — Simple past tense and past participle of gelatinize.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- generalised — Alternative spelling of generalized.
- generalized — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- geniculated — Geniculate.
- germylidene — (chemistry) the germanium analogues of carbenes, R2Ge':'.
- ghirlandaio — (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi) 1449–94, Italian painter.
- giant eland — a similar but larger animal, T. derbianus, living in wooded areas of central and W Africa
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- glide plane — a symmetry element of a space group such that a reflection of the lattice with respect to the plane and a translation of the lattice parallel to the plane bring the lattice back to its original position.
- glossodynia — a condition characterized by a burning or tingling mouth region
- glucuronide — a glycoside that yields glucuronic acid upon hydrolysis.
- go downhill — travel down a slope
- goaltending — goalkeeping.
- goat island — an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.