12-letter words containing g, i, t
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- king's scout — (in Great Britain) a boy scout who has achieved the highest level of scouting: similar to the U.S. eagle scout.
- king-whiting — northern kingfish.
- kintergarden — Misspelling of kindergarten.
- kissing gate — a gate hung in a narrow enclosure having the shape of a U or a V , allowing only one person to pass at a time.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- knightlihood — Quality of being knightly.
- knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
- knitting bag — a bag in which you keep your knitting, wool or yarn, needles and any other knitting equipment
- know-nothing — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lantern ring — gland2 (def 1).
- 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.
- 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.
- lay siege to — attack
- leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- legal entity — a person or organization that can enter into contracts, and take part in legal action
- 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.
- legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
- legitimistic — inclined towards, or relating to, the opinions of legitimists
- 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.
- lexicologist — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- 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 bomber — a small airplane designed to carry light bomb loads relatively short distances, especially one having a gross loaded weight of less than 100,000 pounds (45,000 kg).