12-letter words containing l, u, g
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- logical unit — (networking) (LU) A primary component of SNA, an LU is a type of NAU that enables end users to communicate with each other and gain access to SNA network resources.
- logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
- long account — the account of a customer who buys securities or commodities on margin.
- 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-tongued — talking too much or too openly, especially of private or confidential matters; chattering; gossipy.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- longitudinal — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- loop through — loop
- loughborough — a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
- magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
- magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
- mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
- major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
- major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
- majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
- mangelwurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
- manipulating — Present participle of manipulate.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- 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.
- meaningfully — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- metalanguage — any language or symbolic system used to discuss, describe, or analyze another language or symbolic system.
- metallurgist — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- middle guard — a defensive lineman positioned opposite the offensive center and between the defensive tackles, as in a three- or five-man line.
- milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- minor league — professional non-premier sports association