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11-letter words containing l, a, g

  • light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
  • light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
  • light opera — operetta.
  • light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.
  • light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
  • light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
  • light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
  • light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
  • lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
  • lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
  • lignite wax — a dark-brown bituminous wax extracted from lignite and peat: used chiefly in polishes and waxes for furniture, shoes, etc.
  • linebacking — the act of forming a second line of defence, close to the linesman
  • linecasting — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
  • linguaphile — a language and word lover.
  • lip-reading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
  • liquidating — Present participle of liquidate.
  • lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
  • lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
  • litigations — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • litigatious — (rare) litigious.
  • little game — deceitful plan, scheme
  • living bank — a facility in which donated human organs or tissues are preserved for subsequent transplantation.
  • living dead — people who are very dull and boring
  • living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
  • load-lugger — a motor vehicle that is capable of carrying a load rather than, or as well as, passengers
  • loading arm — A loading arm is a flexible piping unit that loads and unloads liquids and gases.
  • loading bay — dock where cargo is loaded
  • local group — the group of galaxies, at least 25 of which are known, that includes the Milky Way.
  • logagraphia — inability to express ideas in writing
  • logan stone — rocking stone.
  • logarithmic — pertaining to a logarithm or logarithms.
  • loggerheads — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
  • logic array — an arrangement of circuitry on a mass-produced microchip permitting the chip to be easily customized for a specific application.
  • logical sum — union (def 10a).
  • logicalness — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
  • logistician — a person who is skilled in symbolic logic.
  • lognormally — in the manner of having a having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
  • logodaedaly — the cunning or skilful use of words
  • logographic — of, relating to, or using logograms.
  • logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
  • logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
  • logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
  • lollygagged — Simple past tense and past participle of lollygag.
  • lollygagger — (slang) A lazy person, one who lollygags; a slacker, ne'er-do-well.
  • long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
  • long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
  • long island — an island in SE New York: the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens of New York City are located at its W end. 118 miles (190 km) long; 12–20 miles (19–32 km) wide; 1682 sq. mi. (4356 sq. km).
  • long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
  • long-acting — sustained-release.
  • long-haired — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
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