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12-letter words containing i, n, g, e

  • large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
  • laryngealize — to pronounce with accompanying constriction of the larynx.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
  • lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
  • latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • le gallienne — Eva, 1899–91, U.S. actress and producer, born in England.
  • leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
  • leading edge — Aeronautics. the edge of an airfoil or propeller blade facing the direction of motion.
  • leading lady — an actress who plays the principal female role in a motion picture or play.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
  • leading rein — a rein used to lead a horse
  • leading role — prominent acting part
  • leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
  • leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
  • legal entity — a person or organization that can enter into contracts, and take part in legal action
  • legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
  • legalization — to make legal; authorize.
  • legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
  • legislations — the act of making or enacting laws.
  • legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
  • legitimizing — Present participle of legitimize.
  • lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
  • letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
  • leveling rod — rod (def 19).
  • liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
  • liberalizing — Present participle of liberalize.
  • liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • light client — thin client
  • light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
  • light-handed — short-handed.
  • light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
  • line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
  • line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
  • line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
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