12-letter words containing h, e, a, l
- 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.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- leptocephali — Plural form of leptocephalus.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- liberty hall — a place or condition of complete liberty
- liddell hart — (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- linear graph — graph (def 2b).
- 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.
- lion's share — the largest part or share, especially a disproportionate portion: The eldest son received the lion's share of the estate.
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lisle thread — a fine, high-twisted and hard-twisted cotton thread, at least two-ply, used for hosiery, gloves, etc.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- lithia water — a mineral water, natural or artificial, containing lithium salts.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- loggerheaded — Dull; stupid.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- lophophorate — Of or relating to small aquatic invertebrates belonging to a group of phyla characterized by the possession of lophophores. They include bryozoans, brachiopods, and phoronids.
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- love handles — fat midriff
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- luteal phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, lasting about two weeks, from ovulation to the beginning of the next menstrual flow.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- lyophilizate — A lyophilizate is a freeze-dried product.
- machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
- manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mapplethorpe — Robert, 1946–89, U.S. photographer.
- mathematical — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.