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15-letter words containing l, e, s, n, i

  • levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
  • lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
  • library science — the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.
  • licensing hours — hours during which alcoholic drinks may be sold legally
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lick one's lips — to anticipate or recall something with glee or relish
  • liechtensteiner — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
  • light and shade — If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
  • light-sensitive — (of a surface) having a photoelectric property, such as the ability to generate a current, change its electrical resistance, etc, when exposed to light
  • lightheadedness — Alternative spelling of light-headedness.
  • lightning chess — rapid chess in which either each move has a fixed time allowed (usually 10 seconds) or each player is allotted a fixed time (often 5 minutes) for all his moves
  • lignocellulosic — (biochemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from lignocellulose; used especially to describe the products of biomass.
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • linguistic area — a geographical area in which several languages sharing common features are spoken.
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • listed building — (in Britain) a building officially recognized as having special historical or architectural interest and therefore protected from demolition or alteration
  • living expenses — money spent on basic needs
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • lleyn peninsula — a peninsula in NW Wales between Cardigan Bay and Caernarfon Bay
  • loaded question — a question containing a hidden trap or implication
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • long sweetening — liquid sweetening, as maple syrup, molasses, or sorghum.
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • longsightedness — Farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight.
  • lons-le-saunier — a department in E France. 1952 sq. mi. (5055 sq. km). Capital: Lons-le-Saunier.
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
  • lost generation — the generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability.
  • louis d'orleans — Louis Philippe Joseph [lwee fee-leep zhaw-zef] /lwi fiˈlip ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), Duc (Philippe Égalité) 1747–93, French political leader.
  • louisiana heron — tricolored heron.
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • luminous energy — light1 (def 2a).
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • lusatian neisse — a river in E Europe, rising near Liberec in the Czech Republic and flowing north to join the Oder: forms part of the German-Polish border. Length: 225 km (140 miles)
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • magnesium light — the strongly actinic white light produced when magnesium is burned: used in photography, signaling, pyrotechnics, etc.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • mailing address — postal or delivery address
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
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