12-letter words containing n, i, g, e, l
- lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 sq miles)
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- landing gear — the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.
- landing page — a web page that a user is directed to after clicking on an external hyperlink, often a page designed especially for marketing purposes: Their landing page asks for your email address and automatically enters you into a $1,000 cash drawing.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lantern ring — gland2 (def 1).
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- laryngealize — to pronounce with accompanying constriction of the larynx.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
- lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
- latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- le gallienne — Eva, 1899–91, U.S. actress and producer, born in England.
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- leading edge — Aeronautics. the edge of an airfoil or propeller blade facing the direction of motion.
- leading lady — an actress who plays the principal female role in a motion picture or play.
- 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 note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading rein — a rein used to lead a horse
- leading role — prominent acting part
- leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- legal entity — a person or organization that can enter into contracts, and take part in legal action
- legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
- legalization — to make legal; authorize.
- legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
- legislations — the act of making or enacting laws.
- legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
- legitimizing — Present participle of legitimize.
- lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
- let floating — (programming) A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
- lethargizing — Present participle of lethargize.
- letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
- liberalizing — Present participle of liberalize.
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.