14-letter words containing a, l, u, n
- 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.
- latitudinarian — allowing or characterized by latitude in opinion or conduct, especially in religious views.
- laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
- leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
- learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
- 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-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
- leu enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- levulinic acid — a white or colorless, water-soluble solid, C 5 H 8 O 3 , produced by the hydrolysis of cane sugar, starch, or cellulose; used chiefly in the organic synthesis of nylon, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- 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.
- linear measure — any system for measuring length.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
- long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
- long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- 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
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
- louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
- loud and clear — loudly and clearly
- louis napoleon — (Louis Napoleon; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- 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
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.