12-letter words containing g, a, s, i, l
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- land sailing — the sport or activity of driving wheeled sail-powered vehicles across land, esp beaches or dry lakes
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lay siege to — attack
- 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
- legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
- legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
- legislations — the act of making or enacting laws.
- legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
- lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- liquid glass — any of several clear, white, or greenish water-soluble compounds of formulas varying in ratio from Na 2 O⋅3.75SiO 2 to 2Na 2 O⋅SiO 2 : used chiefly in dyeing, printing, and fireproofing textiles and in the manufacture of paper products and cement.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- logistically — of or relating to logistics.
- long-lasting — enduring or existing for a long period of time: a long-lasting friendship.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
- longstanding — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
- magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- mailing list — a list of addresses to which mail, especially advertisements, can be sent.
- malacologist — A person who studies molluscs, who specializes in malacology.
- malignancies — Plural form of malignancy.
- manila grass — a compact, shade-tolerant, turf-forming grass, Zoysia matrella, of southeastern Asia, having stiff leaves and flowering spikelets.