12-letter words containing a, l, d, e
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
- ladder logic — (programming) Source code formatted in two columns with conditions on the left that lead to outputs on the right: if (c1) s1 else if (c2) s2 else if (c3) s3 ... (2007-03-15)
- ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lady teacher — a teacher who is a woman
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lake dweller — an inhabitant of a lake dwelling.
- lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- landing gear — the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.
- landing page — a web page that a user is directed to after clicking on an external hyperlink, often a page designed especially for marketing purposes: Their landing page asks for your email address and automatically enters you into a $1,000 cash drawing.
- landlessness — without landed property; not owning land: a landless noble.
- landlordless — Without a landlord.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- large-handed — generous; profuse
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- largehearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- latch needle — a part of a knitting machine consisting of a thin shaft with a hook on one end and a pivoting latch that closes over the hook so that yarn can be drawn through the developing knitting to make a stitch.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
- lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
- laudableness — The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
- laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lauraldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- lead a chase — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- lead acetate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Pb(C 2 H 3 O 2) 2 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles and as a drier in paints and varnishes.
- lead balloon — a total failure
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- lead dioxide — a brown crystalline compound, PbO 2 , toxic, insoluble in water and alcohol, soluble in glacial acetic acid: used as an oxidizing agent, in lead-acid batteries, and in analytical chemistry.
- lead the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.