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14-letter words containing a, g, n, t

  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
  • langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
  • legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • legitimization — to make legitimate.
  • leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
  • letting agency — a business which leases properties on behalf of their owners
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • literary agent — a person who manages the business affairs of an author
  • loan agreement — an agreement on the terms of a loan
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
  • logical syntax — syntactics.
  • long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
  • long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
  • long-term care — continuing help and attention
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • lot-et-garonne — a department in SW France. 2079 sq. mi. (5385 sq. km). Capital: Agen.
  • lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
  • low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
  • m'naghten test — a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
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