13-letter words containing l, a, s, g, n
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- illogicalness — The quality of being illogical.
- in all things — In all things means in every situation and at all times.
- insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- integral test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the function whose value at each integer is the corresponding term in the series is decreasing, tends to zero, and results in a finite number when integrated from one to infinity.
- interglacials — Plural form of interglacial.
- internalising — Present participle of internalise.
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
- isogonal line — an imaginary line, or one drawn on a map, connecting all points of equal magnetic declination.
- james gosling — (person) The software engineer who wrote GOSMACS, and served as Sun Microsystems, Inc. project leader for both NeWS, and Java. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
- landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
- landing strip — airstrip.
- lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
- language arts — study of reading and writing
- languishingly — In a languishing manner.
- laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- last judgment — judgment (def 8).
- laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- long-standing — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- looking glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- looking-glass — a mirror made of glass with a metallic or amalgam backing.
- losing battle — attempt doomed to failure