12-letter words containing l, a, d, y
- bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
- black comedy — a comedy dealing with an unpleasant situation in a pessimistic or macabre manner
- black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
- bothy ballad — a folk song, esp one from the farming community of NE Scotland
- boulder clay — an unstratified glacial deposit consisting of fine clay, boulders, and pebbles
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- by and large — You use by and large to indicate that a statement is mostly but not completely true.
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- calculatedly — in a calculated manner
- calendar day — the period from one midnight to the following midnight.
- call of duty — responsibilities
- call-by-need — (reduction) A reduction strategy which delays evaluation of function arguments until their values are needed. A value is needed if it is an argument to a primitive function or it is the condition in a conditional. Call-by-need is one aspect of lazy evaluation. The term first appears in Chris Wadsworth's thesis "Semantics and Pragmatics of the Lambda calculus" (Oxford, 1971, p. 183). It was used later, by J. Vuillemin in his thesis (Stanford, 1973).
- calycoideous — calycoid
- capraldehyde — (chemistry) decanal.
- carboxylated — Simple past tense and past participle of carboxylate.
- cardiomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cathodically — in a cathodic manner, by using a cathode
- cetylic acid — palmitic acid.
- chained lady — the constellation Andromeda.
- child's play — something that is easy to do
- ciliary body — the part of the vascular tunic of the eye that connects the choroid with the iris
- columbus day — Oct 12, a legal holiday in most states of the US: the date of Columbus' landing in the West Indies (Caribbean) in 1492
- commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
- conchoidally — In a conchoidal manner.
- concordantly — agreeing; harmonious.
- coney island — an island off the S shore of Long Island, New York: site of a large amusement park
- considerably — to a noteworthy or marked extent; much; noticeably; substantially; amply.
- contractedly — in a shortened manner
- coordinately — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- cotyledonary — the primary or rudimentary leaf of the embryo of seed plants.
- crystallised — Simple past tense and past participle of crystallise.
- crystallized — Crystallized fruits and sweets are covered in sugar which has been melted and then allowed to go hard.
- crystalloids — Plural form of crystalloid.
- curly-haired — having hair that forms curls
- cyclandelate — a medicine for relaxing smooth muscle and encouraging blood cell dilation
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- d'oyly carte — Richard. 1844–1901, British impresario noted for his productions of the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
- dactyliology — the study of finger-rings
- dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
- dactylozooid — (zoology) A kind of zooid of Siphonophora with an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
- daily double — a single bet on the winners of two named races in any one day's racing
- dairy cattle — cows raised mainly for their milk
- daniel shays — Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays' Rebellion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- dasyphyllous — (of leaves) hairy or woolly
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- day labourer — an unskilled worker hired and paid by the day
- daydreamlike — resembling a daydream
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead