13-letter words containing lea
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- glove leather — a soft, smooth, pliable, stretchable leather.
- handleability — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
- hold in leash — to control; curb; restrain
- housecleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
- interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- lead arsenate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, highly poisonous powder, PbHAsO 4 , used as an insecticide.
- lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
- lead monoxide — litharge.
- leaded petrol — petrol containing tetraethyl lead in order to improve combustion
- leaden-limbed — sluggish; incapable of movement
- leading block — lead block.
- leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
- leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
- leaf gelatine — gelatine in the form of thin sheets
- leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
- leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
- least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
- least squares — a method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.
- leather goods — products made of animal skin
- leatherjacket — Also called leather jack. any of several carangid fishes having narrow, linear scales embedded in the skin at various angles, especially Oligoplites saurus, found in tropical American waters.
- leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
- little league — The Little League is an organization of children's baseball teams that compete against each other in the United States.
- longleaf pine — an American pine, Pinus palustris, valued as a source of turpentine and for its timber.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- major leaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
- major release — (programming) A release of a piece of software which is not merely a revision or a bug fix release but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the interface, change in compatibility). Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a revision. See also major delivery.
- major-leaguer — a member of a major-league team.
- malleableness — The quality of being malleable.
- marine league — a unit of 3 nautical miles (5.6 km).
- market leader — most commercially successful company
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
- methyl oleate — an oily, clear to amber, water-insoluble liquid, C 1 9 H 3 6 O 2 , used chiefly as an intermediate for detergents, wetting agents, and emulsifiers.
- micronucleate — having a micronucleus.
- mine-clearing — the process of disarming and removing explosive mines from an area
- minor-leaguer — a member of a minor-league team.
- mononucleated — having a single nucleus
- multinucleate — having a nucleus.
- novated lease — Australian system of employer-aided car purchase
- nuclear force — strong interaction
- nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
- nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
- open learning — a system of further education on a flexible part-time basis
- patrol leader — the leader of a division of a troop of Scouts or Guides