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14-letter words containing l, g, u

  • lake nicaragua — a lake in SW Nicaragua, separated from the Pacific by an isthmus 19 km (12 miles) wide: the largest lake in Central America. Area: 8264 sq km (3191 sq miles)
  • landing ground — airfield
  • language death — the complete displacement of one language by another in a population of speakers.
  • langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • lapsus linguae — a slip of the tongue.
  • laser-guidance — a technique of guiding a missile, etc, using a laser beam
  • last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
  • laughing hyena — an African hyena, Crocuta crocuta, having a yellowish-gray coat with brown or black spots, noted for its distinctive howl.
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
  • league leaders — the team at the top of a league
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
  • legal currency — money that is officially part of a country's currency
  • legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
  • linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
  • liquiritigenin — (organic compound) A flavanone found in a variety of plants including liquorice.
  • liturgiologist — a person who studies liturgiology
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
  • long underwear — a close-fitting, usually knitted undergarment with legs reaching to the ankles, as a union suit, worn as protection against the cold.
  • long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
  • longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lu-wang school — School of Mind.
  • luggage locker — a large locker at a transport terminal or airport where luggage can be left temporarily
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
  • luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • lupus vulgaris — a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heal slowly and leave scars.
  • lymphoglandula — (anatomy) An alternative name for a lymph node.
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