12-letter words containing a, l, d, e
- leader board — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
- leader cable — a submarine cable laid along a channel and emitting signals that a vessel can follow when visibility is poor.
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- leading edge — Aeronautics. the edge of an airfoil or propeller blade facing the direction of motion.
- leading lady — an actress who plays the principal female role in a motion picture or play.
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading rein — a rein used to lead a horse
- leading role — prominent acting part
- leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leather-hard — (of ceramic clay) moist but not sufficiently so to be plastic.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
- ledger paper — a foldable paper with a smooth finish.
- ledger plate — a strip of wood laid flat across the tops of studding as a support for joists.
- leeds castle — a castle near Maidstone in Kent: the home of several medieval queens of England
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- legal tender — currency that may be lawfully tendered in payment of a debt, such as paper money, Federal Reserve notes, or coins.
- lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
- leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
- leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- liddell hart — (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- 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.
- like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
- lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
- line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- line islands — a group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean, S of the Hawaiian Islands: eight belong to the Republic of Kiribati, three are U.S. dependencies. 193 sq. mi. (500 sq. km).
- linen draper — a dry-goods merchant.
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
- linux loader — (operating system) (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.