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11-letter words containing l, e, t, h, g

  • late charge — a penalty charge in addition to the regularly scheduled payment, as of a loan, if such payment has not been made when due.
  • lead weight — a weight made of lead
  • leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
  • length mark — a symbol indicating the length of a vowel sound
  • lengthening — (linguistics) a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens.
  • lengthiness — The property of being lengthy, longness.
  • let through — to allow to pass (through)
  • lethal gene — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
  • lethargical — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • lethargized — Simple past tense and past participle of lethargize.
  • light bread — white bread.
  • light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
  • light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
  • light guide — optical fiber.
  • light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
  • light meter — exposure meter.
  • light opera — operetta.
  • light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.
  • light valve — a light-transmitting device having transmissions that vary in accordance with an electric input, as voltage, current, or an electron beam, used chiefly for recording sound on motion-picture film.
  • light verse — verse that is written to entertain, amuse, or please, often by the subtlety of its form rather than by its literary quality.
  • light water — ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water; water containing the normal proportion of deuterium oxide.
  • light-armed — carrying light weapons: light-armed troops.
  • light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
  • lightheaded — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
  • lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
  • lightninged — a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.
  • lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
  • lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
  • lightvessel — A ship equipped with a very large lamp, the ship can be positioned to warn off other ships from dangerous locations. A sort of portable lighthouse.
  • lightweight — light in weight.
  • lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
  • logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
  • longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
  • magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)
  • met-english — A Fortran-like language designed at Metropolitan Life in the early 1960s. It had support for variable-length bit fields. Most MetLife DP in the 1960s and 1970s was in Met-English. It was originally developed for Honeywell machines, but many programs still run under IBM MVS via a Honeywell emulator.
  • methodology — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
  • methylating — Present participle of methylate.
  • moonlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of moonlight.
  • moonlighter — the light of the moon.
  • mythologies — Plural form of mythology.
  • mythologise — to classify, explain, or write about myths.
  • mythologize — to classify, explain, or write about myths.
  • netherlings — underwear
  • night table — a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.
  • nightingale — Florence ("the Lady with the Lamp") 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • oligochaete — any of various annelids of the family Oligochaeta, including earthworms and certain small, freshwater species, having locomotory setae sunk directly in the body wall.
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
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