12-letter words containing y, a, l, d
- judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- lady teacher — a teacher who is a woman
- lady's-smock — a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
- lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
- laundry room — utility room
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lauraldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
- lay hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- lead the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- leading lady — an actress who plays the principal female role in a motion picture or play.
- leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
- library card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
- loyalty card — customer incentive scheme
- lundy's lane — a road near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada: battle between the British and Americans in 1814.
- lyme disease — an acute inflammatory disease caused by a tick-borne spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi , characterized by recurrent episodes of decreasing severity in which joint swelling, fever, and rash occur, sometimes with cardiac or nervous system complications.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- macrodactyly — a condition of abnormally large fingers or toes
- madonna lily — a lily, Lilium candidum, having clusters of pure white, bell-shaped flowers.
- malodorously — With a bad smell.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
- meditatively — given to, characterized by, or indicative of meditation; contemplative.
- medley relay — Track. a relay race in which individual members of a team usually run an unequal portion of the total distance. Compare distance medley, sprint medley.
- memorial day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- misadvisedly — ill-advisedly
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- multilayered — having two or more layers.
- nautical day — a period from noon of one day to noon of the next, used in reckoning time aboard ship.
- newfangledly — in a newfangled manner
- nonmedically — In a nonmedical manner.
- nontyphoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- occidentally — In an occidental manner.
- octahedrally — in an octahedral manner