12-letter words containing n, e, r, d
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landing gear — the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.
- landlordless — Without a landlord.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- large-handed — generous; profuse
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
- lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
- leading rein — a rein used to lead a horse
- leading role — prominent acting part
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- legal tender — currency that may be lawfully tendered in payment of a debt, such as paper money, Federal Reserve notes, or coins.
- lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- linebreeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
- linen draper — a dry-goods merchant.
- 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.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- linux loader — (operating system) (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
- lion-hearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
- liriodendron — either of the two deciduous trees of the magnoliaceous genus Liriodendron, the tulip trees of North America or China
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- london pride — a saxifragaceous plant, a hybrid between Saxifraga spathularis and S. umbrosa, having a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
- maderization — the process whereby wine is heated and oxidized, resulting in a darker colour and an altered taste
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.