11-letter words containing e, l, i, g
- legitimised — Simple past tense and past participle of legitimise.
- legitimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of legitimise.
- legitimists — Plural form of legitimist.
- legitimized — Simple past tense and past participle of legitimize.
- legitimizer — One who, or that which, legitimizes.
- legitimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of legitimize.
- lemminglike — Resembling a lemming or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- lengthening — (linguistics) a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens.
- lengthiness — The property of being lengthy, longness.
- lentiginose — (botany) Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.
- lentiginous — of or relating to a lentigo.
- lethargical — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- lexigraphic — Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture
- leydig cell — any of the interstitial cells of the testes that produce androgens.
- libertinage — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
- lichenology — the branch of biology that studies lichens.
- lienyunkang — Lianyungang.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- life-giving — imparting, or having the ability to impart, life or vitality; invigorating; vitalizing: life-giving love and praise.
- life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
- lift bridge — a bridge having a section that can be lifted vertically to permit passage of boats beneath it.
- ligamentary — Of or relating to ligaments.
- ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
- light bread — white bread.
- light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- light guide — optical fiber.
- light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
- light meter — exposure meter.
- light opera — operetta.
- light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.
- light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
- light verse — verse that is written to entertain, amuse, or please, often by the subtlety of its form rather than by its literary quality.
- light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
- light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
- lightninged — a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
- lightvessel — A ship equipped with a very large lamp, the ship can be positioned to warn off other ships from dangerous locations. A sort of portable lighthouse.
- lightweight — light in weight.
- lignite wax — a dark-brown bituminous wax extracted from lignite and peat: used chiefly in polishes and waxes for furniture, shoes, etc.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- liltingness — The property or characteristic of being lilting.