10-letter words containing l, e, g, a, i
- light meat — any meat that is light-colored before cooking, as veal or chicken (distinguished from red meat).
- light wave — the movement of light conceptualized as a wave, defined by such properties as reflection, refraction, and dispersion
- light year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- light-year — Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
- lighterage — the use of lighters in loading and unloading ships and in transporting goods for short distances.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- lightfaced — Written, printed or drawn in lightface using a font that has a low ration of ink to white space. The opposite of boldfaced.
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
- lightsaber — a type of sword, as depicted in the fictional Star Wars universe, with a blade made of laser energy that can both cut and burn: The Jedi knight drew his lightsaber and prepared to defend himself.
- lightsabre — Alternative spelling of lightsaber.
- lightwaves — Plural form of lightwave.
- lignocaine — lidocaine.
- like a log — without stirring or being disturbed (in the phrase sleep like a log)
- like magic — very quickly
- lime glass — inexpensive glass containing a large proportion of lime, used for making cheap glasses, windowpanes, etc.
- line gauge — a printer's ruler, usually marked off in points, picas, agates, and inches, and sometimes also in centimeters.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lister bag — a canvas container used especially for supplying troops in the field with pure water.
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- litigative — to make the subject of a lawsuit; contest at law.
- logic gate — gate1 (def 16b).
- login-name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- longhaired — Having long hair.
- longtailed — Having a long tail (used in the names of various birds and animals).
- lovemaking — the act of courting or wooing.
- m-learning — a form of e-learning designed for mobile phones or tablet computers
- magnetical — (obsolete) Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; magnetic.
- mail merge — (messaging) A function of some word processing software (e.g. Microsoft Word) that produces multiple instances of a document by substituting different text strings from a database in place of certain field markers. This is often done with envelopes, resumes, spam, and various other mass mailings.
- malaligned — Badly aligned; misaligned.
- malgré lui — in spite of himself
- malignance — the quality or condition of being malignant.
- malignment — a slanderous disparagement or vilification
- malingered — Simple past tense and past participle of malinger.
- malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
- managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- maquillage — makeup (defs 1, 2, 5).
- martingale — Also called standing martingale. part of the tack or harness of a horse, consisting of a strap that fastens to the girth, passes between the forelegs and through a loop in the neckstrap or hame, and fastens to the noseband: used to steady or hold down the horse's head.
- marvelling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- meaningful — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- megalithic — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- megapixels — Plural form of megapixel.
- melanising — Present participle of melanise.
- menacingly — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- metallings — road metals
- middle age — the period of human life between youth and old age, sometimes considered as the years between 45 and 65 or thereabout.
- middlegame — (board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame.
- migratable — Capable of migrating.
- minelaying — the activity of laying explosive mines