12-letter words containing l, d, c
- lady's-smock — a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
- landed price — the price when delivered
- landing card — an identification card issued to a traveler for presentation to the immigration authorities.
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- latch needle — a part of a knitting machine consisting of a thin shaft with a hook on one end and a pivoting latch that closes over the hook so that yarn can be drawn through the developing knitting to make a stitch.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- laxadaisical — Misspelling of lackadaisical.
- lead a chase — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- lead acetate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, Pb(C 2 H 3 O 2) 2 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles and as a drier in paints and varnishes.
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leader cable — a submarine cable laid along a channel and emitting signals that a vessel can follow when visibility is poor.
- 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
- leeds castle — a castle near Maidstone in Kent: the home of several medieval queens of England
- library card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
- lie detector — a polygraph used to determine changes in certain body activities, as blood pressure, pulse, breathing, and perspiration, the results of which may be interpreted to indicate the truth or falsity of a person's answers under questioning.
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
- line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- loading coil — an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.
- lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
- loco disease — locoism.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- logodaedalic — of or relating to plays on words and word tricks
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- loyalty card — customer incentive scheme
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- machicolated — Having machicolations.
- macrodactyly — a condition of abnormally large fingers or toes
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- malcontented — Malcontent.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- malonic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 3 H 4 O 4 , easily decomposed by heat: used chiefly as an intermediate in the synthesis of barbiturates.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- medical care — the professional attention of medical practitioners
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- men-children — plural of man-child.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.