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12-letter words containing lin

  • geosynclines — Plural form of geosyncline.
  • gibberellins — Plural form of gibberellin.
  • gold filling — a small amount of gold that a dentist puts in a hole in a tooth to prevent further decay
  • gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
  • grovellingly — With grovelling or self-abasement; obsequiously.
  • haematoxylin — Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.
  • halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
  • hand-selling — a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.
  • hard feeling — resentment; ill will
  • hard linking — hard link
  • hash-slinger — a waiter or waitress, especially in a hash house.
  • heavenliness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being heavenly.
  • heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
  • helmet liner — a soft or padded lining for a helmet.
  • high milling — a process for making fine flour, in which the grain is alternately ground and sifted a number of times.
  • high-rolling — gambling, spending, or living extravagantly or recklessly: high-rolling gamblers; a high-rolling investor.
  • hit the line — to try to carry the ball through the opposing line
  • hobgoblinism — a belief in hobgoblins
  • hollingshead — Holinshed.
  • howlin' wolf — (Chester Arthur Burnett) 1910–76, U.S. blues singer.
  • hydrocooling — the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice water.
  • hyperlinking — Present participle of hyperlink.
  • in line with — conforming to
  • in/into line — If one object is in line with others, or moves into line with others, they are arranged in a line. You can also say that a number of objects are in line or move into line.
  • inclinations — A person's natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way; a disposition or propensity.
  • inclinometer — Aeronautics. an instrument for measuring the angle an aircraft makes with the horizontal.
  • indeclinable — not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”.
  • index-linked — index (def 25).
  • indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
  • inline image — (web)   An image that appears within the body of a web page. Most graphical web browsers display images inline (with an option to turn off inline images, to speed up the display of web pages). Other image formats may have to be displayed in a separate window and/or by another application program. An inline image in a web page is specified with the HTML tag, which can take many attributes, the most important of which is the SRC attribute that gives the URL from which to fetch the image. The ALT attribute gives text to display in place of the image for users with images disabled or who are using text-only browsers or text-to-speech convertors (e.g. blind users).
  • insulin pump — an external battery-powered device that injects insulin into the body at a programmed rate to control diabetes.
  • intercolline — (of a valley or hollow) situated between hills
  • interfilling — a filling of materials, as brickwork between studs.
  • interlineate — interline1 (defs 1, 2).
  • interlingual — pertaining to or using two or more languages: an interlingual dictionary.
  • interlinings — Plural form of interlining.
  • interlinking — Linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing.
  • interpelling — Present participle of interpel.
  • into decline — If something goes or falls into decline, it begins to gradually decrease in importance, quality, or power.
  • intralingual — within a given language; of or pertaining to a single language.
  • isoprenaline — a compound that is a derivative of adrenaline and that is used to treat asthma and bronchial conditions. Formula: C11H17NO3
  • isoquinoline — (organic compound) An isomer of quinoline many of whose derivatives occur as alkaloids and are synthesized for use as dyes, pharmaceuticals etc.
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • 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.
  • keratohyalin — (biology) A protein structure found in granules in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, which may be involved in keratinization, and in Hassall corpuscles in the thymus.
  • kneeling bus — a bus that can lower its body or entrance door to facilitate boarding by the elderly or people with disabilities.
  • knightliness — Knightly behaviour; chivalry.
  • kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
  • land sailing — the sport or activity of driving wheeled sail-powered vehicles across land, esp beaches or dry lakes
  • lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
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