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14-letter words containing l, o, s

  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
  • lay waste (to) — to destroy; devastate; make desolate
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • lecture course — a series of lectures on a particular subject
  • lecythidaceous — relating to the Lecythidaceae family of large trees, native to tropical South America and Madagascar
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
  • leiomyosarcoma — (pathology) A cancerous tumor of smooth muscle.
  • lemon squeezer — tool for extracting juice from lemons
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
  • lepidopterists — Plural form of lepidopterist.
  • lepontine alps — a range of the S central Alps, in S Switzerland and N Italy. Highest peak: Monte Leone, 3553 m (11 657 ft)
  • leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
  • lesser omentum — an omentum attached to the stomach, part of the duodenum, and part of the liver and supporting the hepatic vessels.
  • let oneself go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • let someone be — To let someone be means to leave them alone and not interfere in what they are doing.
  • leucocytolysis — the destruction of leucocytes
  • leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
  • leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
  • level crossing — grade crossing.
  • levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
  • lexicalisation — Alternative spelling of lexicalization.
  • lexicographers — Plural form of lexicographer.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
  • libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
  • licentiousness — sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
  • licorice stick — a clarinet.
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • lignocellulose — any of various compounds of lignin and cellulose comprising the essential part of woody cell walls.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
  • linsey-woolsey — a coarse fabric woven from linen warp, or sometimes cotton, and coarse wool filling.
  • lipogrammatism — the practice or art of writing lipograms
  • lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
  • liquid compass — wet compass.
  • liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
  • liquor license — a licence that allows the proprietor of a store, bar, etc, to sell alcohol
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • listening post — Military. a post or position, as in advance of a defensive line, established for the purpose of listening to detect the enemy's movements.
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