12-letter words containing l, a, g
- ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
- ledger paper — a foldable paper with a smooth finish.
- ledger plate — a strip of wood laid flat across the tops of studding as a support for joists.
- left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
- legal entity — a person or organization that can enter into contracts, and take part in legal action
- legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
- legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
- legal tender — currency that may be lawfully tendered in payment of a debt, such as paper money, Federal Reserve notes, or coins.
- legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
- legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
- legalization — to make legal; authorize.
- legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
- legislations — the act of making or enacting laws.
- legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- legitimately — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- legitimatize — to make legitimate.
- lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
- leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
- 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.
- letters page — the page in a newspaper or magazine containing letters sent to the editor by readers
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
- liberalizing — Present participle of liberalize.
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
- light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- limnological — Of or pertaining to limnology, the study of freshwater bodies of water.
- 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 manager — immediate supervisor
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
- linear graph — graph (def 2b).
- linear logic — (theory) A logic invented by Girard in 1987 that can be used in proofs related to resource usage.
- linear-graph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.
- lingua geral — a lingua franca based on Tupi and spoken in the Amazon basin of South America.