12-letter words containing l, y
- lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- likely story — dubious account
- lily-livered — weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- lily-trotter — jaçana.
- linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
- liothyronine — A form of thyroid hormone used to treat hypothyroidism and myxedema coma.
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- little bitty — extremely small; tiny.
- little rhody — Rhode Island (used as a nickname).
- little-bitty — extremely small; tiny.
- liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- liturgiology — liturgics.
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- lloyd george — David, 1st Earl of Dwyfor [doo-vawr] /ˈdu vɔr/ (Show IPA), 1863–1945, British statesman: prime minister 1916–22.
- lloyd webber — (Sir) Andrew, born 1948, English composer of musical theater.
- loblolly bay — an evergreen tree, Gordonia lasianthus, of the tea family, having fragrant, long-stalked white flowers and egg-shaped fruit.
- loblolly boy — an assistant to the surgeon on board a ship.
- locationally — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- locomobility — the ability to move from one place to another
- locomotivity — the capability of moving from one place to another
- logistically — of or relating to logistics.
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- lollygagging — lallygag.
- 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-playing — of or relating to microgroove records devised to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
- longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
- longwindedly — Alternative spelling of long-windedly.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- looney-tunes — crazy; demented
- loosely-knit — associated or linked in a loose way
- loquaciously — In a loquacious manner.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
- loyalty card — customer incentive scheme
- lubriciously — In a lubricious manner.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- lundy's lane — a road near Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada: battle between the British and Americans in 1814.
- luxury goods — expensive non-essential items
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lyme disease — an acute inflammatory disease caused by a tick-borne spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi , characterized by recurrent episodes of decreasing severity in which joint swelling, fever, and rash occur, sometimes with cardiac or nervous system complications.
- lymph system — Anatomy, Zoology. the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens; in mammals, the system includes the lymph glands, vessels and sinuses through which lymph is carried, and lymphoid tissues, as bone marrow and the thymus.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
- lymphography — lymphangiography.
- lyophilizate — A lyophilizate is a freeze-dried product.