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

  • legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
  • legitimizing — Present participle of legitimize.
  • 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.
  • letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
  • leveling rod — rod (def 19).
  • liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
  • liberalizing — Present participle of liberalize.
  • liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
  • light client — thin client
  • light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
  • light-handed — short-handed.
  • light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
  • limnological — Of or pertaining to limnology, the study of freshwater bodies of water.
  • line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
  • line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
  • line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
  • line manager — immediate supervisor
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • line segment — segment (def 2b).
  • line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
  • line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
  • linear graph — graph (def 2b).
  • linear logic — (theory)   A logic invented by Girard in 1987 that can be used in proofs related to resource usage.
  • linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
  • linebreeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
  • lingua geral — a lingua franca based on Tupi and spoken in the Amazon basin of South America.
  • linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
  • linking verb — copula (def 2).
  • linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
  • lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
  • lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
  • list renting — the practice of renting a list of potential customers to a direct-mail seller of goods or to the fundraisers of a charity
  • literalizing — Present participle of literalize.
  • lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
  • living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • living space — home: rooms, etc.
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