11-letter words containing r, a, d, i, l, s
- galliardise — the state of being gay or merry
- generalised — Alternative spelling of generalized.
- girdlestead — the waist
- granadillas — Plural form of granadilla.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-starred — doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
- illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- increasedly — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- industrials — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- interisland — being or operating between islands: interisland transportation.
- kailyardism — kaleyard school.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- landlordism — the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.
- landsteiner — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1943, Austrian pathologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1930.
- lateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralise.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
- 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.
- legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- liberalised — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalise.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- madrigalist — a composer or singer of madrigals.
- mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
- mainlanders — Plural form of mainlander.
- mare island — an island in the N part of San Francisco Bay, California.
- meridionals — Plural form of meridional.
- militarised — Simple past tense and past participle of militarise.
- millifarads — Plural form of millifarad.
- mineralised — Simple past tense and past participle of mineralise.
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- multistrand — Composed of multiple strands.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- naturalised — (British) Simple past tense and past participle of naturalise.
- neutralised — Simple past tense and past participle of neutralise.