12-letter words containing o, n, d
- laundry room — utility room
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lay hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- lead balloon — a total failure
- leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading role — prominent acting part
- leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- 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.
- lend oneself — to give support, cooperation, etc
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- libidinosity — lustfulness
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.
- lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
- 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.
- liquidations — Plural form of liquidation.
- liriodendron — either of the two deciduous trees of the magnoliaceous genus Liriodendron, the tulip trees of North America or China
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- loading coil — an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- lodging knee — a knee reinforcing a hull horizontally, as at the ends of deck beams.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- london broil — a steak, typically served broiled and crosscut into thin slices.
- london brown — carbuncle (def 3).
- london plane — a tall, hardy, widely spreading plane tree, Platanus acerifolia, of North America, having clusters of round, bristly fruit.
- 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.
- long weekend — a weekend holiday extended by a day or days on either side
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- long-sleeved — having long sleeves
- long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
- long-tongued — talking too much or too openly, especially of private or confidential matters; chattering; gossipy.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail