11-letter words containing u, d, a, l
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- leucodermia — leucoderma
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- liquid load — A liquid load is a liquid which is going into or coming out of a distillation stage.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- 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.
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- load module — a program or combination of programs in a form ready to be loaded into main storage and executed: generally the output from a linkage editor.
- load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
- loculicidal — (of a capsule) splitting lengthwise so as to divide each locule into two parts.
- loll around — If you loll around or loll about, you enjoy yourself by sitting or lying in a relaxed way.
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- longicaudal — having a long tail; macrutous.
- look around — examine surrounding area
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- 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.
- lucid dream — a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming and can sometimes influence the course of the dream
- lucid emacs — Xemacs
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- lund simula — (language) A version of SIMULA from Lund Software House. Version 4.07. (FTP: rascal.ics.utexas.edu/misc/mac/programming/ no longer exists).
- mal du pays — homesickness.
- maladjusted — badly or unsatisfactorily adjusted, especially in relationship to one's social circumstances, environment, etc.
- malodourous — Alternative form of malodorous.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
- many-valued — (of a function) having the property that some elements in the domain have more than one image point; multiple-valued.
- maquiladora — a factory run by a U.S. company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and lax regulation.
- maudlinness — The quality of being maudlin.
- medullation — the formation of a medullary sheath about a nerve fiber.
- midlatitude — Any latitude roughly half way between the equator and a pole.
- mill around — walk about
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularized — having been made modular or relating to the use of modular concepts or forms
- modulations — Plural form of modulation.
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- mud volcano — a vent in the earth's surface through which escaping gas and vapor issue, causing mud to boil and occasionally to overflow, forming a conical mound around the vent.
- mule-headed — stubborn; intractable.
- multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- multi-nodal — pertaining to or of the nature of a node.
- multibladed — having multiple blades
- multicasted — Transmitted in the form of a multicast.
- multicoated — having more than one coating of a substance
- multidomain — of, relating to, or affecting several domains
- multiheaded — having more than one head
- multimanned — (esp of a spaceship, space station, etc) manned by two or more people