12-letter words containing l, o, d, g, e
- lloyd george — David, 1st Earl of Dwyfor [doo-vawr] /ˈdu vɔr/ (Show IPA), 1863–1945, British statesman: prime minister 1916–22.
- 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.
- loggerheaded — Dull; stupid.
- logodaedalic — of or relating to plays on words and word tricks
- logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- long weekend — a weekend holiday extended by a day or days on either side
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- long-sleeved — having long sleeves
- long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
- long-tongued — talking too much or too openly, especially of private or confidential matters; chattering; gossipy.
- 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.
- look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- lope de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- mekong delta — the delta of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
- 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.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- moneylending — The action of lending money.
- monkey gland — the testicle of an ape or monkey, said to have a revitalizing effect on humans when administered by grafting or adding the essence to the bloodstream
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- muddle along — If you muddle along, you live or exist without a proper plan or purpose in your life.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- mythologized — Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.
- non-yielding — inclined to give in; submissive; compliant: a timid, yielding man.
- nondelegable — Not delegable.
- nondepleting — not depleting
- nonladdering — (of garments made of knitted material) designed so that the interconnected stitches will not come undone if snagged
- nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
- nosebleeding — bleeding emanating from the nose
- oligopeptide — A peptide whose molecules contain a relatively small number of amino-acid residues.
- orange lodge — a Protestant fraternal organization based mainly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the English-speaking world where there are significant Irish populations
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- perez galdos — Benito [buh-nee-toh;; Spanish be-nee-taw] /bəˈni toʊ;; Spanish bɛˈni tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.
- pigeon blood — dark red.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- pole dancing — Pole dancing is a type of entertainment in a bar or club in which a woman who is wearing very few clothes dances around a pole in a sexy way.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment