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13-letter words containing e, r, g

  • laser surgery — the surgical use of lasers.
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
  • laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
  • legal process — court procedure
  • legal redress — money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or loss
  • legal reserve — the amount of cash assets that a bank, insurance company, etc., is required by law to set aside as reserves.
  • legionary ant — army ant
  • legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
  • leigh-mallory — Sir Trafford Leigh [traf-erd lee] /ˈtræf ərd li/ (Show IPA), 1892–1944, British Air Force officer.
  • lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
  • lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
  • lexigraphical — Misspelling of lexicographical.
  • licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
  • lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lincoln green — an olive-green color.
  • line breeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
  • line integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given curve approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the length of the arcs in the partition times the value of the function at some point on each arc.
  • lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • liqueur glass — a small glass intended for drinking liqueur from
  • little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
  • live together — cohabit
  • liver sausage — liverwurst.
  • london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
  • long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • love triangle — relationship between three people
  • lump together — If a number of different people or things are lumped together, they are considered as a group rather than separately.
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