13-letter words containing l, i, n, t
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landfill site — also landfill
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
- landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
- landing strip — airstrip.
- lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
- laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
- laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
- late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
- lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
- latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
- lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
- lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
- latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- latin quarter — the quarter of Paris on the south side of the Seine, especially frequented for centuries by students, writers, and artists.
- latitudinally — of or relating to latitude.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
- leaf gelatine — gelatine in the form of thin sheets
- leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
- least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
- 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
- legionary ant — army ant
- lending limit — the maximum amount of money a bank can lend to a single person or business
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
- 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.
- 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 interest — interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.
- life sentence — a sentence condemning a convicted felon to spend the rest of his or her life in prison.
- lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lifted domain — (theory) In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.