17-letter words containing lig
- alligator snapper — a large, freshwater snapping turtle (Macroclemys temmincki) of the SE U.S. and the Mississippi Valley, found chiefly in rivers and bayous: it may weigh up to 100 kg (220 lb)
- alternating light — a beacon showing different colors in succession.
- antitwilight arch — a narrow band, pink or with a purple cast, that sometimes appears at twilight just above the horizon opposite the sun.
- cigarette lighter — A cigarette lighter is a device which produces a small flame when you press a switch and which you use to light a cigarette or cigar.
- connecting flight — a flight taken from an airport other than that from which the journey began, and which is taken in a different aeroplane from that used for the previous stage of the journey
- cruciate ligament — A cruciate ligament is either of a pair of ligaments that cross at the knee.
- dante (alighieri) — (born Durante Alighieri) 1265-1321; It. poet: wrote The Divine Comedy
- dipped headlights — road vehicle headlights which have been switched from the main to the lower beam
- flight instrument — any instrument used to indicate the altitude, attitude, airspeed, drift, or direction of an aircraft.
- flight lieutenant — A flight lieutenant is an officer of middle rank in the British air force.
- flight of capital — When people lose confidence in a particular economy or market and withdraw their investment from it, you can refer to a flight of capital from that economy or market.
- flight supplement — an additional charge payable on the price of an air ticket
- fluorescent light — a fluorescent lamp in domestic or commercial use; a fluorescent strip
- football hooligan — a noisy violent football supporter
- hyper-intelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
- in broad daylight — openly, in full public view
- indirect lighting — reflected or diffused light, used especially in interiors to avoid glare or shadows.
- intelligence test — any of various tests, as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or the Stanford-Binet test, designed to measure the intellectual capacity of a person.
- intelligence work — spying
- light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
- light heavyweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a middleweight and a heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kg).
- light in the head — dizzy; giddy
- light machine gun — any air-cooled machine gun having a caliber not greater than 0.30 inches (7.6 mm).
- light mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
- lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
- lighting engineer — a person qualified and trained to design the illumination for a building, house, event, etc
- ligurian republic — the republic in NW Italy set up by Napoleon in 1797, incorporated into France in 1805, and united with the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1814.
- make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
- nautical twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 12° below the horizon
- navigation lights — lights on an aircraft
- once over lightly — a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
- once-over-lightly — a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
- overhead lighting — lighting which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
- pre-enlightenment — the act of enlightening.
- pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
- revealed religion — religion based chiefly on the revelations of God to humans, especially as described in Scripture.
- reverse lightning — a faint discharge of blue light from the top of a thunderstorm cloud that propagates upward: extends approximately from the bottom to the top of the stratosphere and is not detectable from the ground.
- scarlet lightning — scarlet lychnis.
- the bright lights — places of entertainment in a city
- the enlightenment — an 18th-century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason and the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions
- to the lighthouse — a novel (1927) by Virginia Woolf.
- unintelligibility — the quality of being unintelligible
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