10-letter words containing a, n, l, g
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- legalising — Present participle of legalise.
- legalizing — Present participle of legalize.
- legharness — armor for the leg, sometimes including that for the foot.
- legionaire — Misspelling of legionnaire.
- legionella — a genus of rod- or coccus-shaped aerobic Gram-negative bacteria, certain species of which, as L. pneumophila, produce legionnaires' disease.
- lemongrass — A fragrant tropical grass that yields an oil that smells lemon. It is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumery and medicine.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- lengthways — Lengthwise.
- leveraging — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- levigating — Present participle of levigate.
- levigation — to rub, grind, or reduce to a fine powder, as in a mortar, with or without the addition of a liquid.
- levitating — Present participle of levitate.
- liaisoning — Present participle of liaison.
- liberating — That serves to liberate, especially to free the mind to accept new ideas.
- lifesaving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- ligamental — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a ligament.
- ligamentum — ligament.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
- lignocaine — lidocaine.
- lin yutang — (Lin Yü-t'ang) 1895–1976, Chinese author and philologist.
- line gauge — a printer's ruler, usually marked off in points, picas, agates, and inches, and sometimes also in centimeters.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- litigating — Present participle of litigate.
- litigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- llangollen — a town in NE Wales, in Denbighshire on the River Dee: International Musical Eisteddfod held annually since 1946. Pop: 2930 (2001)
- lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
- local sign — the information from a receptor in the eye or the skin signifying respectively a direction in space or a given point on the body
- localising — Present participle of localise.
- localizing — Present participle of localize.
- loganberry — the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
- logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- login-name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- logjamming — the act of logs accumulating in a river and becoming jammed
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- long eaton — a town in N central England, in SE Derbyshire. Pop: 46 490 (2001)
- long lease — (in England and Wales) a lease, originally for a period of over 21 years, on a whole house of low rent and ratable value, which is the occupants' only or main residence. The leaseholder is entitled to buy the freehold, claim an extension of 50 years, or become a statutory tenant
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- long-chain — pertaining to molecules composed of long chains of atoms, or polymers composed of long chains of monomers.
- long-coats — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- long-dated — (of a gilt-edged security) having more than 15 years to run before redemption
- long-eared — (of an animal) having long ears
- long-faced — having an unhappy or gloomy expression; glum.
- long-range — considering or extending into the future: a long-range outlook; long-range plans.
- longaevous — long-lived
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- longbowman — an archer who uses a longbow.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- longheaded — Having unusual foresight or sagacity.