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13-letter words containing g, r, i

  • legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
  • legionary ant — army ant
  • legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
  • leigh-mallory — Sir Trafford Leigh [traf-erd lee] /ˈtræf ərd li/ (Show IPA), 1892–1944, British Air Force officer.
  • lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
  • lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
  • lexigraphical — Misspelling of lexicographical.
  • licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
  • lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
  • lincoln green — an olive-green color.
  • line breeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
  • line integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given curve approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the length of the arcs in the partition times the value of the function at some point on each arc.
  • lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
  • lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
  • linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
  • lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
  • liqueur glass — a small glass intended for drinking liqueur from
  • lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
  • little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
  • live together — cohabit
  • liver sausage — liverwurst.
  • loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • logic circuit — a circuit designed to perform complex functions defined in terms of elementary functions of mathematical logic.
  • logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
  • logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
  • london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
  • longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
  • love triangle — relationship between three people
  • lunar landing — arrival on surface of the moon
  • luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
  • lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
  • lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
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