11-letter words containing ai
- des plaines — city in NE Ill.: suburb of Chicago: pop. 59,000
- detrainment — The act of detraining.
- direct mail — mail, usually consisting of advertising matter, appeals for donations, or the like, sent simultaneously to large numbers of possible individual customers or contributors. Abbreviation: DM.
- disclaimers — Plural form of disclaimer.
- disclaiming — Present participle of disclaim.
- disentailed — Simple past tense and past participle of disentail.
- dispraising — Present participle of dispraise.
- distraining — Present participle of distrain.
- doctrinaire — a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.
- dog curtain — a flap on a canvas cover for a binnacle, affording a view of the compass when raised.
- domain name — fully qualified domain name
- dotted pair — (programming) The usual LISP syntax for representing a cons cell that is not a list. For example, the expression (cons 'foo 42) returns a cons cell that is output as (foo . 42) which represents a cons cell whose car is the symbol "foo" and whose cdr is the integer 42.
- dovetailing — a tenon broader at its end than at its base; pin.
- draft chair — a chair so designed as to fend off drafts from behind, as a wing chair.
- drainageway — a conduit, ditch, or the like, for draining water from an area.
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- draize test — a test assessing the potential of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and other commercial products to produce irritation, pain, or damage to the human eye by studying its effect on a rabbit's eye.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- dumb waiter — A dumb waiter is a lift used to carry food and dishes from one floor of a building to another.
- dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
- dutch chair — a chair of c1700, derived from Dutch models, having curved uprights, a wide splat joined to the seat rail, and cabriole legs.
- eames chair — Also called LCM chair. a side chair designed by Charles Eames in 1946, having a slender tubular steel frame with a seat and back of molded plywood panels.
- edutainment — television programs, movies, books, etc., that are both educational and entertaining, especially those intended primarily for children in the elementary grades.
- enchainment — The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.
- engrailment — The ring of dots around the edge of a medal, etc.
- enough said — understood
- entailments — Plural form of entailment.
- entertained — Simple past tense and past participle of entertain.
- entertainer — A person, such as a singer, dancer, or comedian, whose job is to entertain others.
- entrainable — (biology) Capable of being entrained, or brought into a specific rhythm.
- entrainment — Any of several processes in which a solid or liquid is put into motion by a fluid.
- explainable — Able to be explained or understood.
- facial hair — moustache, beard, etc.
- faineantise — the quality of being lazy or indolent
- fair dinkum — dinkum.
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fair-haired — having light-colored hair.
- fair-minded — characterized by fair judgment; impartial; unprejudiced: a wise and fair-minded judge.
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- fairweather — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
- fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
- fairy cycle — a child's bicycle
- fairy glove — purple foxglove.
- fairy green — a medium yellow-green color.
- fairy queen — the queen of the fairies
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- fairy story — A fairy story is the same as a fairy tale.
- faith-based — affiliated with, supported by, or based on a religion or religious group: faith-based charities.