13-letter words containing i, g, l
- lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
- lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
- lexicological — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- lexigraphical — Misspelling of lexicographical.
- li hung-chang — 1823–1901, Chinese statesman.
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- 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 colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- light fitting — fixture for attaching a lamp
- light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
- light quantum — photon.
- 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 vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- light-o'-love — a lover.
- 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.
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lightheadedly — In a lightheaded manner.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
- lightning bug — firefly.
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- 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.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- 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.
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- 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
- liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
- little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
- little league — The Little League is an organization of children's baseball teams that compete against each other in the United States.
- live together — cohabit
- liver sausage — liverwurst.