12-letter words containing g, r, i, s, l
- hearing loss — diminished ability to hear
- heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
- helicographs — Plural form of helicograph.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- high hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 42 inches (107 cm) high.
- higher still — a system of post-Standard Grade qualifications offered at five levels including Higher and Advanced Higher
- highlighters — Plural form of highlighter.
- highschooler — (US) A student at a high school.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- historiology — (obsolete) a discourse on history.
- hydrologists — Plural form of hydrologist.
- hygrophilous — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
- hyperalgesia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperalgesic — Of or pertaining to hyperalgesia.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- ingloriously — In an inglorious manner.
- integralness — Integrality.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interlinings — Plural form of interlining.
- intermingles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermingle.
- invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.
- irish gaelic — Irish (def 4).
- irregardless — regardless.
- king's color — a white ceremonial ensign with a royal cipher, flown on special occasions by the British Royal Navy.
- klipspringer — a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
- 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.
- liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- 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
- living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- 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.