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11-letter words containing a, g, l, u

  • league city — a town in S Texas.
  • lechuguilla — a semidesert plant, Agave lecheguilla, of Mexico, having a basal rosette of sharply pointed leaves and a very tall flower spike, grown as an ornamental.
  • legacy duty — estate tax; inheritance tax
  • legislature — 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.
  • lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
  • leukaemogen — a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia
  • lianyungang — a city in NE Jiangsu province, in E China.
  • lienyunkang — Lianyungang.
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
  • linguaphile — a language and word lover.
  • liquidating — Present participle of liquidate.
  • litigatious — (rare) litigious.
  • load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
  • local group — the group of galaxies, at least 25 of which are known, that includes the Milky Way.
  • logical sum — union (def 10a).
  • long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
  • longanimous — Long-suffering; patient; showing self-control and restraint.
  • longicaudal — having a long tail; macrutous.
  • lough allen — a lake in Ireland, in county Leitrim
  • lough neagh — a lake in E central Northern Ireland: largest freshwater lake in the British Isles. About 18 miles (29 km) long and 11 miles (18 km) wide.
  • lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
  • luggage van — a railway carriage used to transport passengers' luggage, bicycles, etc
  • lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
  • lung cancer — malignant disease affecting the lungs
  • luxuriating — to enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth.
  • magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • mangalsutra — a necklace worn by a Hindu woman to signify that she is married
  • maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
  • marine glue — a tarlike composition for coating the seams of a planked deck after caulking.
  • marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
  • megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
  • meliphagous — feeding on honey
  • meme plague — (philosophy)   The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, especially one that parasitises the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given point by the historical fact that "joiner" ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
  • metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
  • misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
  • monolingual — knowing or able to use only one language; monoglot.
  • mount logan — a mountain in NW Canada, in SW Yukon in the St Elias Range: the highest peak in Canada and the second highest in North America. Height (after a re-survey in 1993): 5959 m (19 550 ft)
  • multangular — having many angles; polyangular.
  • multi-grain — a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
  • multiagency — involving multiple agencies
  • multijugate — (of a leaf) having several pairs of leaflets
  • muskallonge — muskellunge.
  • natural gas — a combustible mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons that accumulates in porous sedimentary rocks, especially those yielding petroleum, consisting usually of over 80 percent methane together with minor amounts of ethane, propane, butane, nitrogen, and, sometimes, helium: used as a fuel and to make carbon black, acetylene, and synthesis gas.
  • nongranular — not consisting of granules
  • nonlanguage — non-verbal communication
  • nonsingular — not singular. Compare singular (def 7).
  • nonsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
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