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12-letter words containing r, o, n, g

  • king's color — a white ceremonial ensign with a royal cipher, flown on special occasions by the British Royal Navy.
  • king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
  • king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • kluge around — (jargon)   To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
  • kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
  • kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
  • labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
  • laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
  • laryngophone — A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
  • laryngophony — the sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope placed on the throat directly over the larynx
  • laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
  • laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
  • laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
  • leading role — prominent acting part
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
  • letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
  • leveling rod — rod (def 19).
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • linear logic — (theory)   A logic invented by Girard in 1987 that can be used in proofs related to resource usage.
  • linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
  • locoregional — Restricted to a localized region of the body.
  • lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
  • lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
  • logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
  • 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 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-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
  • long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
  • longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
  • longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macrosegment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
  • magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
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