5-letter words containing l, d
- boldo — a Chilean evergreen tree, Peumus boldus, cultivated in California for its aromatic foliage.
- build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
- cadel — An ornate capital letter used in calligraphy consisting of interlacing pen strokes.
- calid — warm
- child — A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
- clade — a group of organisms considered as having evolved from a common ancestor
- clads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clad.
- clods — Plural form of clod.
- cloud — A cloud is a mass of water vapour that floats in the sky. Clouds are usually white or grey in colour.
- clued — Simple past tense and past participle of clue.
- clwyd — a former county in NE Wales, formed in 1974 from Flintshire, most of Denbighshire, and part of Merionethshire; replaced in 1996 by Flintshire, Denbighshire, Wrexham county borough, and part of Conwy county borough
- clyde — a river in S Scotland, rising in South Lanarkshire and flowing northwest to the Firth of Clyde: formerly extensive shipyards. Length: 170 km (106 miles)
- codel — Abbreviation of congressional delegation, government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.
- codil — COntext Dependent Information Language
- codle — Obsolete form of coddle.
- colds — Plural form of cold.
- colid — (zoology) Any member of the Colidae.
- could — You use could to indicate that someone had the ability to do something. You use could not or couldn't to say that someone was unable to do something.
- dactl — Declarative Alvey Compiler Target Language. An intermediate language from the University of East Anglia, used in the Flagship project. DACTL is based on a form of graph rewriting which can be used to implement functional languages, logic languages and imperative languages. The current version is Dactl0.
- daily — If something happens daily, it happens every day.
- dalan — (in Persian and Indian architecture) a veranda or open hall for reception of visitors.
- dalek — any of a set of fictional robot-like creations that are aggressive, mobile, and produce rasping staccato speech
- dalen — Nils Gustaf. 1869–1937, Swedish engineer, inventor of an automatic light-controlled valve known as 'Solventil'. Nobel prize for physics 1912
- dales — a strong working breed of pony, originating from Yorkshire and Durham
- dalet — The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- daley — Richard J(oseph) 1902–76, U.S. politician: mayor of Chicago 1955–76.
- dalit — a member of the lowest class in India, whom those of the four main castes were formerly forbidden to touch
- dally — If you dally, you act or move very slowly, wasting time.
- dalny — former Russian name of Dalian (def 2).
- datal — slow-witted
- datel — a British Telecom service providing for the direct transmission of data from one computer to another
- dault — a child who is brought up in a family to which he or she has no blood connection
- davil — Eye dialect devil.
- deale — Archaic spelling of deal.
- deals — Plural form of deal.
- dealt — Dealt is the past tense and past participle of deal2.
- dealy — (US, slang) An object, especially a gadget, whose name the speaker currently cannot recall.
- debel — to overcome or beat (an opponent) in combat
- decal — Decals are pieces of paper with a design on one side. The design can be transferred onto a surface by heating it, soaking it in water, or pressing it hard.
- decyl — a group of isomeric univalent radicals, C 10 H 21 , derived from the decanes by removing one hydrogen atom.
- dedal — daedal.
- defly — Obsolete form of deftly.
- dekle — (art) Alternative form of deckle.
- delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- deled — to delete.
- delft — a town in the SW Netherlands, in South Holland province. Pop: 97 000 (2003 est)
- delhi — the capital of India, in the N central part, on the Jumna river: consists of Old Delhi (a walled city reconstructed in 1639 on the site of former cities of Delhi, which date from the 15th century bc) and New Delhi to the south, chosen as the capital in 1912, replacing Kolkata (then called Calcutta); university (1922). Pop: 9 817 439 (2001)
- delia — the recipes or style of cooking of British cookery writer Delia Smith (born 1941)
- delis — Plural form of deli.
- della — a female given name, form of Delia.