11-letter words containing u, g, l
- keyed bugle — a bugle that has keys to make it possible to play a chromatic scale
- kim il sung — 1912–94, North Korean political leader: premier 1948–72; president 1972–94.
- kim il-sung — 1912–94, North Korean statesman and marshal; prime minister (1948–72) and president (1972–94) of North Korea
- king's blue — cobalt blue.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- la camargue — a delta region in S France, between the channels of the Grand and Petit Rhône: cattle, esp bulls for the Spanish bullrings, and horses are reared
- lamb's lugs — a perennial herb, Stachys lanata, planted for its foliage, which is covered with white woolly down; the purplish or striped flowers are small
- landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
- langue d'oc — the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.
- languescent — becoming languid
- languidness — The property of being languid.
- languishing — becoming languid, in any way.
- languourous — Alternative form of languorous.
- laryngismus — Laryngospasm.
- laugh lines — Laugh lines are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
- laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- league city — a town in S Texas.
- lechuguilla — a semidesert plant, Agave lecheguilla, of Mexico, having a basal rosette of sharply pointed leaves and a very tall flower spike, grown as an ornamental.
- leg-pulling — the act of performing practical jokes
- legacy duty — estate tax; inheritance tax
- legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- lentiginous — of or relating to a lentigo.
- let through — to allow to pass (through)
- leukaemogen — a substance or agent which promotes the development of leukaemia
- levoglucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- lianyungang — a city in NE Jiangsu province, in E China.
- lienyunkang — Lianyungang.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- light guide — optical fiber.
- light music — music for popular entertainment
- lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
- lightstruck — (of beer) Spoiled by exposure to light, which causes riboflavin to react with and break down the isohumulones.
- lignicolous — growing or living on or in wood
- lignivorous — xylophagous.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- linguaphile — a language and word lover.
- linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
- liquid gold — a suspension of finely divided gold in a vegetable oil, used chiefly for gilding ceramic ware.
- liquidating — Present participle of liquidate.
- liquidising — Present participle of liquidise.
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- litigatious — (rare) litigious.
- litigiously — In a litigious manner.