0%

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

  • rock island — a port in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi: government arsenal.
  • roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
  • ross island — an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • ruridecanal — relating to a rural dean
  • saint kilda — a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic, in the Outer Hebrides: uninhabited since 1930; bird sanctuary
  • saint-cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
  • saline drip — the usually intravenous drop-by-drop administration of an isotonic solution of sodium chloride in distilled water
  • salvadorian — El Salvador.
  • sand lizard — a common lizard, Lacerta agilis, of Europe and central Asia.
  • scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • sdeignfully — disdainfully
  • sea islands — a chain of islands in the Atlantic off the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
  • sealed unit — a hard disk that is permanently sealed to prevent damage to the read/write head
  • second lien — a lien subordinate to a previous or preferred lien.
  • second line — a jaunty, syncopated rhythm in 2/4 time, often used in the rhythm and blues and jazz of New Orleans
  • secondarily — next after the first in order, place, time, etc.
  • self-binder — binder (def 5b).
  • self-denial — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
  • self-driven — (of a machine) containing its own power source, as an engine or motor.
  • self-minded — having a certain kind of mind (usually used in combination): strong-minded.
  • semidiurnal — pertaining to, consisting of, or accomplished in half a day.
  • send flying — to dismiss or cause to depart hurriedly
  • shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
  • shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • side glance — a look sideways at someone or something
  • side-glance — a glance directed to the side; an oblique or sideways look: a side-glance of displeasure at her interrupter.
  • side-lining — a line at the side of something.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • siliconized — (of a material) having silicone added.
  • sindonology — the scientific study of the Shroud of Turin.
  • single bond — a chemical linkage consisting of one covalent bond between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by one line or two vertical dots, as C–H or C:H.
  • single-hand — to sail (a craft) without help from others.
  • single-wide — a mobile home used as a permanent residence.
  • sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
  • skidbladnir — the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.
  • slickenside — a rock surface that has become more or less polished and striated by slippage along a fault plane.
  • sliding fit — a fit that enables one part to be inserted into another by sliding or pushing, rather than by hammering
  • smouldering — burning slowly without flame, usually emitting smoke
  • snail-paced — slow of pace or motion, like a snail; sluggish.
  • snowblading — the activity or sport of skiing with short skis (snowblades) and no poles
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • soil binder — a plant that prevents or inhibits erosion by providing a ground cover and forming a dense network of roots that hold the soil.
  • soldier ant — a type of ant that has a disproportionately large head
  • solid angle — an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting in a common point or formed at the vertex of a cone.
  • solidarnosc — a Polish organization of independent trade unions founded in 1980: outlawed by the government of Poland in 1982.
  • sound-alike — a person or thing that resembles another in sound
  • spellbinder — a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
  • spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?