13-letter words containing l, o, s
- lechosos opal — a variety of opal having a deep-green play of color.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- legal process — court procedure
- legionellosis — An infectious disease caused by Legionella bacteria, taking one of two distinct forms: Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever.
- legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
- leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
- leishmaniosis — Alt form leishmaniasis.
- leonine verse — a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- leptophyllous — (of plants) having long slender leaves
- leptospirosis — an infectious disease of humans and of horses, dogs, swine, and other animals, caused by the spirochete Leptospira interrogans and characterized by fever, muscle pain, and jaundice, and in severe cases involving the liver and kidney.
- let loose sth — If someone lets loose a sound or remark, they make it, often suddenly.
- let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
- levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- lexical scope — (programming) (Or "static scope") When the scope of an identifier is fixed at compile time to some region in the source code containing the identifier's declaration. This means that an identifier is only accessible within that region (including procedures declared within it). This contrasts with dynamic scope where the scope depends on the nesting of procedure and function calls at run time. Statically scoped languages differ as to whether the scope is limited to the smallest block (including begin/end blocks) containing the identifier's declaration (e.g. C, Perl) or to whole function and procedure bodies (e.g. ECMAScript), or some larger unit of code (e.g. ?). The former is known as static nested scope.
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
- libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- lincoln's inn — See under Inns of Court (def 1).
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- linearisation — Alternative spelling of linearization.
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquid storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- listerellosis — listeriosis.
- lithesomeness — the quality of being flexible and supple
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
- lithotriptist — a person skilled in breaking and removing stones from the bladder
- litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
- little casino — the two of spades.
- livery colors — the principal tinctures of a coat of arms, usually one color and one metal, used for liveries, standards, etc.
- living fossil — an organism that is a living example of an otherwise extinct group and that has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function over a long period of time, as the coelacanth and the horseshoe crab.
- living stones — any of various succulent plants of the genus Lithops, native to Africa, having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates