10-letter words containing e, g, i, r
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- lanterning — Present participle of lantern.
- large-size — (of clothing, goods, merchandise, etc) of a bigger size than average
- laundering — Present participle of launder.
- lay figure — a jointed model of the human body, usually of wood, from which artists work in the absence of a living model.
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- leftwinger — (Sometimes pejorative) A person who is radically liberal politically; one whose political viewpoint is leftwing.
- legendries — Plural form of legendry.
- leger line — ledger line (def 1).
- legionaire — Misspelling of legionnaire.
- legislator — a person who gives or makes laws.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- leistering — Present participle of leister.
- lethargies — Plural form of lethargy.
- lethargize — to make lethargic; stupefy.
- lethbridge — a city in S Alberta, in SW Canada.
- 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.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- liberating — That serves to liberate, especially to free the mind to accept new ideas.
- liege lord — a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service
- lifeguards — Plural form of lifeguard.
- light beer — beer with a lower alcohol content than average
- light year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- light-year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- lighterage — the use of lighters in loading and unloading ships and in transporting goods for short distances.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- lightsaber — a type of sword, as depicted in the fictional Star Wars universe, with a blade made of laser energy that can both cut and burn: The Jedi knight drew his lightsaber and prepared to defend himself.
- lightsabre — Alternative spelling of lightsaber.
- lignotuber — (botany) A starchy enlargement (caudex), usually of a root, of a woody plant, serving to store water.
- limburgite — a glassy, dark-coloured volcanic rock containing olivine and augite but little or no feldspar
- lime green — bright yellowish-green colour
- linguister — an interpreter
- 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.
- lister bag — a canvas container used especially for supplying troops in the field with pure water.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- litterbugs — Plural form of litterbug.
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- logorrheic — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
- long rifle — Kentucky rifle.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- loundering — a beating
- loweringly — In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
- lug-rigged — rigged with a lugsail or lugsails.
- lutestring — a silk fabric of high sheen, formerly used in the manufacture of dresses.
- lyme regis — a resort in S England, in Dorset, on the English Channel: noted for finds of prehistoric fossils. Pop: 4406 (2001)
- m-learning — a form of e-learning designed for mobile phones or tablet computers
- macerating — Present participle of macerate.
- magistrate — a civil officer charged with the administration of the law.