12-letter words containing u, g, l
- isotopologue — (chemistry) any of a group of compounds only differing in their isotopic composition; for example water and heavy water.
- jelly fungus — any of various fungi of the order Tremellales, distinguished by gelatinous basidiocarp.
- juan hidalgo — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1600–85, Spanish composer and harpist.
- judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
- juggling act — If you say that a situation is a juggling act, you mean that someone is trying to do two or more things at once, and that they are finding it difficult to do those things properly.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
- jungle bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- jungle fever — a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
- jungle juice — moonshine: home-made alcohol
- jungle-bunny — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- juvenilizing — Present participle of juvenilize.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- laguna hills — a city in SW California.
- lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
- langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
- languageless — without language or a language
- langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
- languishment — the act or state of languishing.
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- 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.
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
- laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
- league table — competitive ranking
- leakage-flux — an act of leaking; leak.
- left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
- legislatures — 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.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- lingua geral — a lingua franca based on Tupi and spoken in the Amazon basin of South America.
- linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
- liquid glass — any of several clear, white, or greenish water-soluble compounds of formulas varying in ratio from Na 2 O⋅3.75SiO 2 to 2Na 2 O⋅SiO 2 : used chiefly in dyeing, printing, and fireproofing textiles and in the manufacture of paper products and cement.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- liturgiology — liturgics.