14-letter words containing a, t, i, l, n
- laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
- law of nations — international law.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- 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.
- 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).
- legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
- legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
- legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- lepontine alps — a range of the S central Alps, in S Switzerland and N Italy. Highest peak: Monte Leone, 3553 m (11 657 ft)
- leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
- letting agency — a business which leases properties on behalf of their owners
- leucocytopenia — leucopenia
- leukocytopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
- lexicalization — The act or process of lexicalizing.
- lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
- liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
- liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
- libertarianism — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
- liberty island — a small island in upper New York Bay: site of the Statue of Liberty.
- licentiateship — a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
- lieutenantship — the office of a lieutenant
- life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- lift attendant — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
- 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.
- line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
- line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
- 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.
- lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
- liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- literal-minded — unimaginative; prosaic; matter-of-fact.
- literalization — The act or process of literalizing.
- literary agent — a person who manages the business affairs of an author
- little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
- lobotomization — to perform a lobotomy on.
- local election — an election to select members for a local council
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- 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
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.