13-letter words containing l, o, a, n
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- lamellaphones — Plural form of lamellaphone.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- land contract — a contract for the purchase and sale of land.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- language code — (human language, standard) A set of standard names and abbreviations maintained by ISO for identifying human languages, natural and invented, past and present. Each language has a list of English and French names and an ISO 639-2 three-letter code. Some also have an ISO 639-1 two-letter code. The list even includes the Klingon language from the Star Trek science fiction series. There are also country codes.
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
- late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
- latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
- lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
- 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.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- 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 of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lead monoxide — litharge.
- leading block — lead block.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- legal offence — a crime that breaks a particular law and requires a particular punishment
- legionary ant — army ant
- leishmaniosis — Alt form leishmaniasis.
- lemon verbena — a plant, Aloysia triphylla, having long, slender leaves with a lemonlike fragrance.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
- levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- 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.
- 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.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- linearisation — Alternative spelling of linearization.