4-letter words containing l, d
- mold — loose, friable earth, especially when rich in organic matter and favorable to the growth of plants.
- odyl — od.
- olde — (archaic) old.
- olds — (used with a plural verb) old persons collectively (usually preceded by the): appropriations to care for the old.
- oldy — oldie.
- oled — organic light-emitting diode: a light-emitting diode (LED) composed of one or more layers of organic material between two electrodes.
- olid — (rare) evil-smelling; fetid.
- ould — (slang, Ireland) old, aged, long-established.
- pdel — Partial Differential Equation Language. A preprocessor for PL/I.
- pdil — (language) A language developed at Agence d'Informatique, France in the 1970s for description of communication protocols. It was part of the RHIN project.
- pdl2 — (language) Process Design Language 2.
- pled — a simple past tense and past participle of plead.
- plod — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
- sdlc — 1. (communications) Synchronous Data Link Control. 2. (programming) Systems Development Life Cycle.
- sdlp — Social Democratic and Labour Party
- sdsl — Single-line Digital Subscriber Line
- seld — rare or seldom
- sild — (in Scandinavia) any of numerous species of herring.
- sled — a small vehicle consisting of a platform mounted on runners for use in traveling over snow or ice.
- slid — to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
- sold — simple past tense and past participle of sell1 .
- spdl — Standard Page Description Language A draft within the ODA standard.
- srdl — Small algebraic specification language, allows distfix operators.
- tdel — thick film dielectric electroluminescence
- tdfl — Dataflow language. "TDFL: A Task-Level Dataflow Language", P. Suhler et al, J Parallel Dist Comp 9(2):103-115 (Jun 1990).
- tdlu — Tanduay Distillery Labor Union
- tfdl — (language) ["TFDL : A Task-level Dataflow Language", P.A. Suhler et al, J Parallel and Distrib Comput 9:103-115 (1990)].
- tmdl — Target-Machine Description Language
- told — simple past tense and past participle of tell1 .
- udal — a form of freehold possession of land existing in northern Europe before the introduction of the feudal system and still used in Orkney and Shetland
- uidl — Unique ID Listing
- ulsd — Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel
- umdl — University of Michigan Digital Library Project
- vdsl — Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line
- veld — the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
- vhdl — Very High Speed Integrated Circuit (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language. A large high-level VLSI design language with Ada-like syntax. The DoD standard for hardware description, now standardised as IEEE 1076.
- vlad — a male given name, form of Vladimir.
- vldb — Very Large DataBase
- wald — George, 1906–97, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1967.
- wdrl — World Dirt Racing League
- weld — to unite or fuse (as pieces of metal) by hammering, compressing, or the like, especially after rendering soft or pasty by heat, and sometimes with the addition of fusible material like or unlike the pieces to be united.
- wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- wlda — Womens Long Drive Association
- wldc — World Long Drive Champion
- wold — the faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions: the freedom of the will.
- wsdl — Web Service Definition Language
- wyld — Henry Cecil Kennedy, 1870–1945, English lexicographer and linguist.
- yald — vigorous, lively, active
- yeld — barren; sterile.
- ylid — A compound that has an uncharged molecule containing a negatively charged carbon atom directly bonded to a positively charged atom of sulfur, phosphorus, nitrogen, or another element.