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12-letter words containing t, e, l, i, n, g

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
  • light client — thin client
  • light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
  • light-handed — short-handed.
  • light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • line segment — segment (def 2b).
  • line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
  • list renting — the practice of renting a list of potential customers to a direct-mail seller of goods or to the fundraisers of a charity
  • literalizing — Present participle of literalize.
  • lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
  • living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
  • 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-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
  • long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
  • long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
  • long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
  • longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
  • longipennate — (of birds) having long slender wings or feathers
  • loosefitting — fitting loosely
  • lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
  • lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
  • maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
  • magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
  • magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
  • matrilineage — lineal descent traced through the female line.
  • meeting rail — (in a double-hung window) the rail of each sash that meets a rail of the other when the window is closed.
  • mental image — sth imagined
  • metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
  • metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
  • metallogenic — relating to metallogeny
  • metalorganic — (chemistry) organometallic.
  • metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
  • milking time — the time at which a cow is milked
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