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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.
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