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11-letter words containing di

  • judiciaries — Plural form of judiciary.
  • judiciously — using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic: judicious use of one's money.
  • jure divino — by divine law.
  • juridically — of or relating to the administration of justice.
  • jus divinum — divine law.
  • k-radiation — one of a series of lines (K-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (K-radiation) produced by the transition of an electron to the K-shell.
  • kailyardism — kaleyard school.
  • keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • kiddie porn — child pornography.
  • kidney dish — medical: curved basin
  • kodiak bear — a large, brown bear, Ursus (arctos) middendorffi, inhabiting coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia, that grows to a length of 9 feet (2.7 meters).
  • l-radiation — one of a series of lines (L-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (L-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the L-shell.
  • laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.
  • ladies' day — a special day set aside, either occasionally or regularly, on which women are encouraged to attend or participate in a certain activity at a reduced fee or at no cost: Friday was Ladies' Day at the ball park.
  • ladies' man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
  • ladislaus i — Saint. 1040–95, king of Hungary (1077–95). He extended his country's boundaries and suppressed paganism. Feast day: June 27
  • lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
  • landholding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
  • landing net — a small, bag-shaped net with a handle at the mouth, for scooping a hooked fish out of the water and bringing it to shore or into a boat.
  • landlordism — the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.
  • langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
  • lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
  • latifundium — a great estate.
  • latitudinal — of or relating to latitude.
  • law-abiding — obeying or keeping the law; obedient to law: law-abiding citizens.
  • leading dog — a dog trained to lead a flock of sheep to prevent them breaking or stampeding
  • leading man — an actor who plays the principal male role in a motion picture or play.
  • 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
  • lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
  • leydig cell — any of the interstitial cells of the testes that produce androgens.
  • lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
  • line editor — (tool, text)   An early kind of text editor suited to use on a teletype. The user enters editing commands which apply to the current line or some given range of lines. These include moving forward and backward through the buffer, inserting and deleting lines, substituting a string for a pattern match, and printing lines. Visual feedback is restricted to explicitly requesting the display of one or more lines, in contrast to a screen editor.
  • link editor — linker
  • lip molding — a bead surrounding the opening of a drawer.
  • 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.
  • liquid diet — a diet restricted to liquids and, sometimes, certain semisolid foods, as custards, gelatin, etc.
  • liquidising — Present participle of liquidise.
  • liquidizers — Plural form of liquidizer.
  • 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.
  • loaded dice — dice weighted for cheating
  • loading arm — A loading arm is a flexible piping unit that loads and unloads liquids and gases.
  • loading bay — dock where cargo is loaded
  • local radio — radio services for a particular area, as opposed to radio aimed at a national audience
  • long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
  • ludicrously — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
  • lycopodiums — Plural form of lycopodium.
  • lydian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from F to F.
  • m-radiation — one of a series of lines (M-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (M-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the M-shell.
  • maledicting — Present participle of maledict.
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