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12-letter words containing d, o, l, a

  • labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
  • ladder logic — (programming)   Source code formatted in two columns with conditions on the left that lead to outputs on the right: if (c1) s1 else if (c2) s2 else if (c3) s3 ... (2007-03-15)
  • ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
  • lady's-smock — a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • lagging load — A lagging load is one where the phase of the current lags behind the phase of the voltage when supplied with an alternating voltage.
  • lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
  • lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
  • lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
  • land-holding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
  • land-to-land — designed for launching or traveling from a base on land to a target or destination on land: land-to-land missile.
  • landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
  • landlordless — Without a landlord.
  • langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
  • lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • lapidicolous — living under stones
  • lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
  • latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
  • laundry room — utility room
  • laundrywoman — laundress.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • lay hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • lead balloon — a total failure
  • 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.
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • leader board — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
  • leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
  • leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
  • leading role — prominent acting part
  • leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
  • 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.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
  • ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
  • 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.
  • liar paradox — a logical paradox that results from consideration of statements of the form “This statement is false.” If the statement is true, then it is false, whereas if it is false, then it is true.
  • lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
  • 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.
  • lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
  • liquidations — Plural form of liquidation.
  • lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
  • load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
  • loading coil — an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
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