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14-letter words containing l, i, n, t

  • khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
  • kinetheodolite — a type of theodolite containing a cine camera instead of a telescope and giving continuous film of a moving target together with a record of its altitude and azimuth: used in tracking a missile, satellite, etc
  • kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
  • kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
  • kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
  • knee-trembling — very exciting
  • knight templar — Templar.
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • lactoglobulins — Plural form of lactoglobulin.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • lake trasimene — a lake in central Italy, in Umbria: the largest lake in central Italy; scene of Hannibal's victory over the Romans in 217 bc. Area: 128 sq km (49 sq miles)
  • lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
  • landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
  • landing strake — the next strake of planking in an open boat below the sheer strake.
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lantern pinion — 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.
  • lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • last knockings — the final stage of a period or activity
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lateralisation — Alternative spelling of lateralization.
  • lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
  • lathing hammer — a hatchet having a small hammer face for trimming and nailing wooden lath.
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • latin american — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • latitudinarian — allowing or characterized by latitude in opinion or conduct, especially in religious views.
  • lattice energy — chemistry: strength of bonds holding ionic solid together
  • lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
  • legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • legitimization — to make legitimate.
  • leibnitz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • leisure centre — A leisure centre is a large public building containing different facilities for leisure activities, such as a sports hall, a swimming pool, and rooms for meetings.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • lepontine alps — a range of the S central Alps, in S Switzerland and N Italy. Highest peak: Monte Leone, 3553 m (11 657 ft)
  • leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
  • letting agency — a business which leases properties on behalf of their owners
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