11-letter words containing t, i, l, d
- lipopeptide — (biochemistry) An organic compound of lipids and peptides.
- liquid diet — a diet restricted to liquids and, sometimes, certain semisolid foods, as custards, gelatin, etc.
- liquidating — Present participle of liquidate.
- liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- literalized — Simple past tense and past participle of literalize.
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- lithodomous — living in rock or stone
- 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 bird — If you say that a little bird told you about something, you mean that someone has told you about it, but you do not want to say who it was.
- little hand — the ticking hand on a watch or clock which indicates or points to the hour
- lobotomised — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lobotomized — Surgery. having undergone a lobotomy.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- londonistan — an informal name for London, as considered by some people as a base for radical Islamists
- long-tailed — (of an animal) having a long tail
- longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- low-density — having a low concentration.
- low-pitched — pitched in a low register or key: a low-pitched aria for the basso.
- madrigalist — a composer or singer of madrigals.
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
- maladroitly — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
- malediction — a curse; imprecation.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malted milk — a soluble powder made of dehydrated milk and malted cereals.
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- mandolinist — One who plays the mandolin.
- manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
- mariticidal — Of, or pertaining to, mariticide. Often used to describe a person.
- mediastinal — a median septum or partition between two parts of an organ, or paired cavities of the body.
- mediational — Of or pertaining to mediation.
- mediatorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a mediator.
- medievalist — an expert in medieval history, literature, philosophy, etc.
- medullation — the formation of a medullary sheath about a nerve fiber.
- melolonthid — any of various scarab beetles whose larvae feed chiefly on roots, including the cockchafers and June bugs
- metabolised — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolise.
- metabolized — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolize.
- metalliding — the creation of an alloy coating by an electrolytic process involving the diffusion of atoms from one metal into the surface of a second metal
- metalloidal — metalloid
- metapodials — Plural form of metapodial.
- meteoroidal — (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteoroids. (from 19th c.).
- methylidene — (organic chemistry) The CH2= radical in which the free valences are part of a double bond.
- middle east — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
- middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
- middle term — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
- middle west — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.