12-letter words containing l, i, e, g, d
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- linebreeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- lodging knee — a knee reinforcing a hull horizontally, as at the ends of deck beams.
- logodaedalic — of or relating to plays on words and word tricks
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- longwindedly — Alternative spelling of long-windedly.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- marginalised — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- marginalized — to place in a position of marginal importance, influence, or power: the government's attempts to marginalize criticism and restore public confidence.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- middle congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- middle eight — the third contrasting eight-bar section of a 32-bar pop song
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- middle guard — a defensive lineman positioned opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles, as in a three- or five-man line.
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- middlingness — Quality of being middling.
- milking shed — a building in which a herd of cows is milked
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- misleadingly — In a misleading manner.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- moneylending — The action of lending money.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- mythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.
- new-laid egg — an egg that has been freshly laid by a chicken
- non-yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
- nondepleting — not depleting
- nonladdering — (of garments made of knitted material) designed so that the interconnected stitches will not come undone if snagged
- nosebleeding — bleeding emanating from the nose