12-letter words containing h, i, l
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- laguna hills — a city in SW California.
- lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
- land-holding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- latin church — the Roman Catholic Church.
- latin school — a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.
- laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- leachability — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- 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.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leptocephali — Plural form of leptocephalus.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- liberty hall — a place or condition of complete liberty
- liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
- lichtenstein — Roy, 1923–97, U.S. painter and sculptor.
- liddell hart — (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- 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).
- 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.