12-letter words containing g, i, t
- light breeze — a wind of 4–7 miles per hour (2–3 m/sec). Compare breeze1 (def 2).
- light bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
- light client — thin client
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
- light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- light-weight — light displacement.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lightweights — Plural form of lightweight.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- line segment — segment (def 2b).
- line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
- linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
- 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.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- lithographic — Of, relating to, or produced by lithography.
- lithological — Of or pertaining to lithology.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- little egret — any of several usually white herons that grow long, graceful plumes during the breeding season, as Egretta garzetta (little egret) of the Old World.
- little grebe — a small grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis, of the Old World.
- liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- liturgiology — liturgics.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
- logical unit — (networking) (LU) A primary component of SNA, an LU is a type of NAU that enables end users to communicate with each other and gain access to SNA network resources.
- logistically — of or relating to logistics.
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-lasting — enduring or existing for a long period of time: a long-lasting friendship.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains