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12-letter words containing g, i, n, l

  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • lagging load — A lagging load is one where the phase of the current lags behind the phase of the voltage when supplied with an alternating voltage.
  • laguna hills — a city in SW California.
  • lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
  • lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 sq miles)
  • lallygagging — Present participle of lallygag.
  • land sailing — the sport or activity of driving wheeled sail-powered vehicles across land, esp beaches or dry lakes
  • land-holding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
  • landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
  • landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
  • landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
  • landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
  • landing card — an identification card issued to a traveler for presentation to the immigration authorities.
  • landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
  • landing gear — the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.
  • landing page — a web page that a user is directed to after clicking on an external hyperlink, often a page designed especially for marketing purposes: Their landing page asks for your email address and automatically enters you into a $1,000 cash drawing.
  • 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.
  • langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • lantern ring — gland2 (def 1).
  • large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • laryngealize — to pronounce with accompanying constriction of the larynx.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
  • 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.
  • laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • lawn bowling — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • le gallienne — Eva, 1899–91, U.S. actress and producer, born in England.
  • 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
  • leading edge — Aeronautics. the edge of an airfoil or propeller blade facing the direction of motion.
  • leading lady — an actress who plays the principal female role in a motion picture or play.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
  • leading rein — a rein used to lead a horse
  • leading role — prominent acting part
  • leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
  • leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
  • legal entity — a person or organization that can enter into contracts, and take part in legal action
  • legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
  • legalization — to make legal; authorize.
  • legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
  • legislations — the act of making or enacting laws.
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