14-letter words containing t, i, l, n, g
- laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
- leading rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable but junior to that of a corporal in the army
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- legitimateness — The quality of being legitimate.
- legitimatizing — Present participle of legitimatize.
- legitimisation — (British) alternative spelling of legitimization.
- legitimization — to make legitimate.
- leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
- letting agency — a business which leases properties on behalf of their owners
- lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
- light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
- light infantry — foot soldiers with lightweight weapons and minimal field equipment.
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
- light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- linguistically — of or belonging to language: linguistic change.
- linkage editor — linker
- linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
- liquiritigenin — (organic compound) A flavanone found in a variety of plants including liquorice.
- listening post — Military. a post or position, as in advance of a defensive line, established for the purpose of listening to detect the enemy's movements.
- literary agent — a person who manages the business affairs of an author
- little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- living picture — tableau (def 3).
- logical syntax — syntactics.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- longitudinally — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- lothian region — a former local government region in SE central Scotland, formed in 1975 from East Lothian, most of Midlothian, and West Lothian; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian, and Edinburgh
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- lysogenization — the process of a bacterium becoming lysogenic
- magistral line — the line from which the position of the other lines of fieldworks is determined.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
- magniloquently — In a magniloquent manner.
- magnolia metal — an alloy used for bearings, consisting largely of lead (up to 80 per cent) and antimony, with the addition of smaller quantities of iron and tin
- magnolia state — Mississippi (used as a nickname).
- malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- maraging steel — a low-carbon steel that has been heated and quenched to form martensite: contains up to 25 percent nickel.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- mental healing — the healing of a physical ailment or disorder by mental concentration or suggestion.
- merchant guild — a medieval guild composed of merchants.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metalinguistic — Pertaining to metalinguistics.
- metallogenetic — metallogenic
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- milling cutter — any of various rotating toothed cutters used in a milling machine to cut or shape metal parts