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13-letter words containing l, h, e

  • light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
  • light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
  • light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • light-o'-love — a lover.
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
  • lightheadedly — In a lightheaded manner.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
  • lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • list enhanced — (operating system, tool)   An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • lithesomeness — the quality of being flexible and supple
  • lithium oxide — a white powder, Li 2 O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.
  • lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
  • live together — cohabit
  • lo and behold — Lo and behold or lo is used to emphasize a surprising event that is about to be mentioned, or to emphasize in a humorous way that something is not surprising at all.
  • load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
  • loathsomeness — The property or nature that gives rise to revulsion, that inspires loathing.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
  • lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
  • lonely hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
  • lonely-hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
  • look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
  • loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.
  • loop the loop — plane: fly upside down
  • loop-the-loop — an airplane maneuver in which a plane, starting upward, makes one complete vertical loop.
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • lose the plot — go insane
  • lower chamber — lower house.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • lubber's hole — (in a top on a mast) an open space through which a sailor may pass instead of climbing out on the futtock shrouds.
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • lump together — If a number of different people or things are lumped together, they are considered as a group rather than separately.
  • lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
  • luncheon club — (in Britain) an arrangement or organization for serving hot midday meals for a small charge to old people in clubs or daycentres
  • luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
  • luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
  • luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
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