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11-letter words containing p, a, l, d

  • lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
  • land patent — an official document by which title to a portion of public land is conveyed from the government.
  • landscapers — Plural form of landscaper.
  • landscaping — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • landscapist — an artist who paints landscapes.
  • lap dancing — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
  • lapel badge — pin or button worn on the collar
  • lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
  • lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
  • lasiocampid — (zoology) Any member of the Lasiocampidae.
  • lead pencil — a writing or drawing implement made of graphite in a wooden or metal holder.
  • lead piping — pipes made of lead
  • leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
  • leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
  • leap second — Coordinated Universal Time
  • leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
  • led display — a flat-screen device in which an array of light-emitting diodes can be selectively activated to display numerical and alphabetical information, used esp in pocket calculators, digital timepieces, measuring instruments, and in some microcomputers
  • leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
  • lepidoptera — the order comprising the lepidopterous insects.
  • leptodactyl — leptodactylous
  • 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.
  • lipoic acid — sulphur-containing fatty acid
  • lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
  • loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
  • lymph gland — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
  • mal du pays — homesickness.
  • maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
  • manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
  • maxillipeds — Plural form of maxilliped.
  • metapodials — Plural form of metapodial.
  • middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
  • mispleading — a mistake in pleading, as a misjoinder of parties or a misstatement of a cause of action.
  • model plane — a small-scale model of an aircraft, which may or may not be able to fly
  • mpls domain — (networking)   A portion of a network that contains devices that understand MPLS.
  • nasal drops — Nasal drops are medicine that you put directly in your nose one drop at a time.
  • nodal point — either of two points on the axis of a lens or other optical system, determined by extending an incident oblique ray and the corresponding refracted ray to the axis for the pair of rays that are parallel outside the optical system.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
  • operculated — relating to the operculum
  • orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
  • overplanned — resulting from overplanning
  • pachydactyl — with thick digits
  • pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
  • padded cell — a room, as in a mental hospital, with padded walls for the confinement of violent inmates.
  • paddle ball — a game similar to handball, but played with a short-handled, perforated paddle
  • paddle boat — small boat with pedals
  • 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
  • paddleboard — a type of surfboard with one end rounded and the other tapered to a point, used chiefly in surfing and often in lifesaving.
  • paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
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