12-letter words containing d, i, e, l
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- 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.
- 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-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- led zeppelin — British rock group (1968–80); comprised Jimmy Page (born 1944), Robert Plant (born 1948), John Paul Jones (born 1946), and John Bonham (1948–80): recordings include Led Zeppelin I (1969), Led Zeppelin IV (1971), and Physical Graffiti (1975)
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
- 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.
- lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
- leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
- leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
- leopoldville — former name of Kinshasa.
- 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.
- lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- liddell hart — (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.
- lie detector — a polygraph used to determine changes in certain body activities, as blood pressure, pulse, breathing, and perspiration, the results of which may be interpreted to indicate the truth or falsity of a person's answers under questioning.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- light bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way