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13-letter words containing l, a, d

  • landsmanshaft — a fraternal organization made up of immigrants from the same region.
  • language code — (human language, standard)   A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • lantern-jawed — having a lantern jaw.
  • larder beetle — a black beetle, Dermestes lardarius, the larvae of which feed on dried meats, hides, furs, etc.
  • large-hearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • latitudinally — of or relating to latitude.
  • launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • lead arsenate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, highly poisonous powder, PbHAsO 4 , used as an insecticide.
  • lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
  • lead monoxide — litharge.
  • leaded petrol — petrol containing tetraethyl lead in order to improve combustion
  • leaden-limbed — sluggish; incapable of movement
  • leading block — lead block.
  • leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
  • legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
  • legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
  • legal redress — money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or loss
  • legitimatized — Simple past tense and past participle of legitimatize.
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • less and less — to a progressively smaller degree
  • letter head's — a printed heading on stationery, especially one giving the name and address of a business concern, an institution, etc.
  • levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
  • lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
  • liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • lightheadedly — In a lightheaded manner.
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
  • linoleic acid — an unsaturated fatty acid, C 18 H 32 O 2 , occurring as a glyceride in drying oils, as in linseed oil.
  • lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
  • liquid assets — assets in the form of money or easily convertible into money
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