0%

12-letter words containing a, g, l, i, t, e

  • legal entity — a person or organization that can enter into contracts, and take part in legal action
  • legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
  • legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
  • legalization — to make legal; authorize.
  • legislations — the act of making or enacting laws.
  • legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
  • legitimately — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimatize — to make legitimate.
  • lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
  • liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
  • light-haired — having light-coloured hair
  • light-handed — short-handed.
  • light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
  • lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
  • literalizing — Present participle of literalize.
  • lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
  • lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
  • living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
  • long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
  • longipennate — (of birds) having long slender wings or feathers
  • magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
  • maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
  • magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • mail gateway — (messaging)   A machine that connects two or more electronic mail systems (including dissimilar mail systems) and transfers messages between them. Sometimes the mapping and translation can be quite complex, and it generally requires a store and forward scheme whereby the message is received from one system completely before it is transmitted to the next system, after suitable translations.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
  • matrilineage — lineal descent traced through the female line.
  • meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
  • megalecithal — having a large amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
  • mental image — sth imagined
  • metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
  • metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
  • metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
  • metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • metrological — the science of weights and measures.
  • mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
  • misalignment — improperly aligned.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?