12-letter words containing t, i, n, a, g
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- kintergarden — Misspelling of kindergarten.
- kissing gate — a gate hung in a narrow enclosure having the shape of a U or a V , allowing only one person to pass at a time.
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- knitting bag — a bag in which you keep your knitting, wool or yarn, needles and any other knitting equipment
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- lantern ring — gland2 (def 1).
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
- lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
- latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
- leading note — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leading tone — the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- 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.
- 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.
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
- light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
- light-handed — short-handed.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
- linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
- literalizing — Present participle of literalize.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- logical unit — (networking) (LU) A primary component of SNA, an LU is a type of NAU that enables end users to communicate with each other and gain access to SNA network resources.
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-lasting — enduring or existing for a long period of time: a long-lasting friendship.
- 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
- longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
- longitudinal — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- longstanding — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- 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.