12-letter words containing l, a, i, d
- 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)
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lagging load — A lagging load is one where the phase of the current lags behind the phase of the voltage when supplied with an alternating voltage.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- land sailing — the sport or activity of driving wheeled sail-powered vehicles across land, esp beaches or dry lakes
- land-holding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- landing card — an identification card issued to a traveler for presentation to the immigration authorities.
- landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
- 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.
- landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
- lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
- 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.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- laxadaisical — Misspelling of lackadaisical.
- lead dioxide — a brown crystalline compound, PbO 2 , toxic, insoluble in water and alcohol, soluble in glacial acetic acid: used as an oxidizing agent, in lead-acid batteries, and in analytical chemistry.
- 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.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
- leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.