13-letter words containing l, h, e
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lantern wheel — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
- large-hearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
- lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
- laughableness — The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
- laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
- leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leather goods — products made of animal skin
- leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lechosos opal — a variety of opal having a deep-green play of color.
- legal holiday — a public holiday established by law, during which certain work, government business, etc., is restricted.
- leghemoglobin — a hemoglobinlike red pigment in the root nodules of leguminous plants, as soybean, that is essential for nitrogen fixation.
- leigh-mallory — Sir Trafford Leigh [traf-erd lee] /ˈtræf ərd li/ (Show IPA), 1892–1944, British Air Force officer.
- leishmaniasis — any infection caused by a protozoan of the genus Leishmania.
- leishmaniosis — Alt form leishmaniasis.
- leonine rhyme — the form of internal rhyme used in leonine verse.
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- leptophyllous — (of plants) having long slender leaves
- let loose sth — If someone lets loose a sound or remark, they make it, often suddenly.
- let sth slide — If you let something slide, you allow it to get into a worse state or condition by not attending to it.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- letter head's — a printed heading on stationery, especially one giving the name and address of a business concern, an institution, etc.
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
- level 1 cache — primary cache
- level 2 cache — secondary cache
- lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
- lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
- lexigraphical — Misspelling of lexicographical.
- li hsien-nien — Li Xiannian.
- liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
- lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
- lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- life-or-death — life-and-death.