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12-letter words containing g, e, t, a, l

  • lantern ring — gland2 (def 1).
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • largehearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
  • larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
  • laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
  • lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
  • latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
  • lay siege to — attack
  • leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
  • leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
  • league table — competitive ranking
  • leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
  • ledger plate — a strip of wood laid flat across the tops of studding as a support for joists.
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • legal entity — a person or organization that can enter into contracts, and take part in legal action
  • legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
  • legal tender — currency that may be lawfully tendered in payment of a debt, such as paper money, Federal Reserve notes, or coins.
  • legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
  • legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
  • legalization — to make legal; authorize.
  • 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.
  • legitimately — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimatize — to make legitimate.
  • lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
  • letters page — the page in a newspaper or magazine containing letters sent to the editor by readers
  • liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
  • light-haired — having light-coloured hair
  • light-handed — short-handed.
  • light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
  • lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
  • literalizing — Present participle of literalize.
  • lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
  • lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
  • living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
  • long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
  • longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
  • longipennate — (of birds) having long slender wings or feathers
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