14-letter words containing l, o, s
- liturgiologist — a person who studies liturgiology
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- llano estacado — a large plateau in the SW United States, in W Texas and SE New Mexico: cattle-grazing region. About 1000–5000 feet (300–1500 meters) above sea level.
- lleras camargo — Alberto [ahl-ver-taw] /ɑlˈvɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–89, Colombian journalist, writer, and political leader: president 1945–46, 1958–62.
- local politics — political activity at local level, as opposed to national politics
- locker-lampson — Frederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
- locking pliers — pliers whose jaws are connected at a sliding pivot, permitting them to be temporarily locked in a fixed position for ease in grasping and turning nuts.
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- longcase clock — tall freestanding timepiece
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- longleat house — an Elizabethan mansion near Warminster in Wiltshire, built (from 1568) by Robert Smythson for Sir John Thynne; the grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown, now contain a famous safari park
- longshorewoman — a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- loose sentence — a sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continues with one or more subordinate clauses or other modifiers.
- lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
- loquaciousness — talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest.
- lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
- lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
- lorraine cross — cross of Lorraine.
- lose one's rag — If you lose your rag, you suddenly become so angry that you are not in control of yourself.
- lose one's way — If you lose your way, you become lost when you are trying to go somewhere.
- lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
- lost for words — If someone is lost for words, they cannot think of anything to say, especially because they are very surprised by something.
- lotus position — a standard seated posture for yoga, with legs intertwined, left foot over right thigh, and right foot over left thigh.
- louis napoleon — (Louis Napoleon; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).
- louis philippe — ("Citizen King") 1773–1850, king of France 1830–48.
- louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lower silurian — Ordovician
- lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
- lowside window — (in medieval English churches) a window set low in the outside wall, permitting the interior to be seen from the outside.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- lyophilisation — Alternative spelling of lyophilization.
- lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.