9-letter words containing l, e, t, h, g
- key light — (in photography or motion pictures) the main light that illuminates the subject being photographed or filmed.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- lengthens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lengthen.
- lengthful — long
- lengthier — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthily — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lengthman — a person whose job it is to maintain a particular length of road or railway line
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lich gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard under which a bier is set down during a burial service to await the coming of the clergyman.
- light ale — a type of beer that is light in colour and low in alcohol content
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- lightened — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- lightener — That which lightens.
- lightered — Simple past tense and past participle of lighter.
- lightface — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightless — without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.
- lightlike — (mathematics) (of a four-vector) having a space component whose magnitude is equal to its time component multiplied by the speed of light.
- lightness — the state or quality of being light or illuminated.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- lightwave — A wave of light.
- lightwell — (architecture) An open shaft that transmits light from above into a staircase or an inner room.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- limelight — Theater. (formerly) a lighting unit for spotlighting the front of the stage, producing illumination by means of a flame of mixed gases directed at a cylinder of lime and having a special lens for concentrating the light in a strong beam. the light so produced. Chiefly British. a lighting unit, especially a spotlight.
- lingereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of linger.
- logothete — (in the Byzantine Empire and later in Sicily) a chancellor
- lovelight — A fond expression of love in a person's eyes.
- lych gate — a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used during funerals as a temporary shelter for the bier
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megilloth — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- metheglin — a variety of spiced mead.
- mightless — (obsolete) Lacking in might; weak.
- nightless — the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
- nightlife — the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion, as at a nightclub, theater, or the like.
- nightlike — Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
- overlight — a strong light
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- red light — traffic light indicating stop
- red-light — Informal. to stop or deter by means of or as if with a red light.
- rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rightless — lacking rights
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- segholate — a noun in Hebrew that has a long vowel in the first syllable and a short seghol in the second syllable
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- sidelight — an item of incidental information.
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- sightless — unable to see; blind.
- sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.