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12-letter words containing l, a, e, g

  • irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
  • jailbreaking — Present participle of jailbreak.
  • jane goodall — Jane, born 1934, English primatologist and zoologist.
  • jelenia gora — a city in SW Poland, a historic mining center.
  • judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
  • kendal green — a coarse woolen cloth, green in color.
  • kluge around — (jargon)   To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
  • knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
  • ladder logic — (programming)   Source code formatted in two columns with conditions on the left that lead to outputs on the right: if (c1) s1 else if (c2) s2 else if (c3) s3 ... (2007-03-15)
  • lager (beer) — a type of beer which is stored at a low temperature for aging after it has been brewed
  • laguna beach — a town in S California.
  • lake herring — a cisco or whitefish, especially Coregonus artedii, of the Great Lakes.
  • lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
  • lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 sq miles)
  • lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
  • lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
  • land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
  • landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
  • landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
  • landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
  • landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
  • landing gear — the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.
  • landing page — a web page that a user is directed to after clicking on an external hyperlink, often a page designed especially for marketing purposes: Their landing page asks for your email address and automatically enters you into a $1,000 cash drawing.
  • langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
  • languageless — without language or a language
  • langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • lantern gear — a gear mechanism including a lantern wheel.
  • lantern ring — gland2 (def 1).
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • large-handed — generous; profuse
  • large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
  • largehearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
  • larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
  • laryngealize — to pronounce with accompanying constriction of the larynx.
  • laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
  • laryngophone — A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
  • laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
  • 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.
  • laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
  • lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
  • law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
  • lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
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