12-letter words containing l, o, r, g, n
- locoregional — Restricted to a localized region of the body.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- long gallery — a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- long-running — Something that is long-running has been in existence, or has been performed, for a long time.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
- longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- melanogaster — Any of several fungi of the genus Melanogaster.
- metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- mineralogies — Plural form of mineralogy.
- mineralogist — the science or study of minerals.
- mineralogize — (intransitive) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
- minor league — professional non-premier sports association
- minor-league — of or relating to a minor league.
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- mongrelizing — Present participle of mongrelize.
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- monsignorial — having the ecclesiastical title of a Monsignor
- moralizingly — In a moralizing fashion.
- morning line — a list of entries for a horse race with the probable betting odds as estimated by a bookmaker or track handicapper, usually issued the morning of the race, before wagering begins.
- morphonology — morphophonemics (def 1).
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
- motorcycling — Present participle of motorcycle.
- moulin rouge — a dance hall in the Montmartre section of Paris, France, opened in 1889 and famous for its cancan dancers and the drawings of its performers and customers made there by Toulouse-Lautrec.
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- narcological — Relating to narcology.
- natal orange — a spiny shrub, Strychnos spinosa, of the logania family, of central and southern Africa, having yellowish-white flowers and edible, berrylike, yellow fruit.
- navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
- necrological — a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurological — the science of the nerves and the nervous system, especially of the diseases affecting them.
- neurologists — Plural form of neurologist.
- nitrogelatin — gelatin dynamite.
- non-arguable — susceptible to debate, challenge, or doubt; questionable: Whether this is the best plan of action or not is arguable.