12-letter words containing s, e, a, n, i, l
- kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- ladylikeness — Ladylike behaviour.
- lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
- lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
- 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
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lectionaries — Plural form of lectionary.
- legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
- legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
- legislations — the act of making or enacting laws.
- lemnian seal — the earth of the Greek island of Lemnos, which is famous for its medicinal properties
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- levalloisian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a distinctive late Lower and Middle Paleolithic method of preparing a stone core so that preformed thin, oval or triangular flakes with sharp edges could be struck from it.
- lex talionis — the principle or law of retaliation that a punishment inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer, as an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; retributive justice.
- liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
- libertarians — Plural form of libertarian.
- lie in state — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- likeableness — Likeability.
- line islands — a group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean, S of the Hawaiian Islands: eight belong to the Republic of Kiribati, three are U.S. dependencies. 193 sq. mi. (500 sq. km).
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linear space — vector space.
- linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
- lion's share — the largest part or share, especially a disproportionate portion: The eldest son received the lion's share of the estate.
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- literariness — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- literateness — the ability to read and write
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.