11-letter words containing l, g, e, n
- lake-geneva — a city in and the capital of the canton of Geneva, in SW Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva: seat of the League of Nations 1920–46.
- lamentingly — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
- lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- lan manager — (operating system) Microsoft's OS/2-based network operating system. Developed in conjunction with 3Com, Lan Manager runs as a task under OS/2. Because of this, a file server may concurrently be used for other tasks, such as database services. It offers good mulitasking.
- land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
- landgrabber — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- landing net — a small, bag-shaped net with a handle at the mouth, for scooping a hooked fish out of the water and bringing it to shore or into a boat.
- langbeinite — a mineral, K 2 Mg 2 (SO 4) 3 , occurring in marine salt deposits, used as a fertilizer because of its potassium content.
- langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
- langue d'oc — the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.
- languescent — becoming languid
- languidness — The property of being languid.
- large print — text printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- large-print — set in a type size larger than normal for the benefit of persons with impaired vision: large-print newspapers.
- lastingness — The property of lasting; duration, permanence.
- laugh lines — Laugh lines are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
- lead piping — pipes made of lead
- lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
- leading dog — a dog trained to lead a flock of sheep to prevent them breaking or stampeding
- leading man — an actor who plays the principal male role in a motion picture or play.
- leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
- ledger line — Also, leger line. Also called added line. Music. a short line added when necessary above or below the staff to increase the range of the staff.
- left-winger — A left-winger is a person whose political beliefs are close to socialism, or closer to them than most of the other people in the same group or party.
- leg-pulling — the act of performing practical jokes
- legationary — Relating to a legation.
- legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legendarily — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legerdemain — sleight of hand.
- legibleness — Legibility.
- legionaries — Plural form of legionary.
- legionnaire — (often initial capital letter) a member of the American Legion.
- legislating — Present participle of legislate.
- legislation — the act of making or enacting laws.
- leglessness — the state or condition of being legless
- lemminglike — Resembling a lemming or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- lemon grass — any of several lemon-scented grasses of the genus Cymbopogon, especially C. citratus, of tropical regions, yielding lemon-grass oil.
- lemon grove — a town in SW California, near San Diego.
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- 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.
- lentiginose — (botany) Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.
- lentiginous — of or relating to a lentigo.
- lethal gene — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- leukaemogen — a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- ley farming — the alternation at intervals of several years of crop growing and grassland pasture