13-letter words containing l, i, c, e, n
- lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
- lacrimal bone — a small, thin, membrane bone forming the front part of the inner wall of each orbit.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
- latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- leading block — lead block.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
- 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.
- lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
- licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
- liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- life instinct — suicidal tendency or inclination; predisposition to self-destruction.
- life sentence — a sentence condemning a convicted felon to spend the rest of his or her life in prison.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- lincoln green — an olive-green color.
- line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- linoleic acid — an unsaturated fatty acid, C 18 H 32 O 2 , occurring as a glyceride in drying oils, as in linseed oil.
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- 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.
- little casino — the two of spades.
- little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
- little prince — an allegorical fantasy (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.