12-letter words containing nd
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- knock around — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- kristiansand — a seaport in S Norway.
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- land sailing — the sport or activity of driving wheeled sail-powered vehicles across land, esp beaches or dry lakes
- land-grabber — a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.
- land-holding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
- land-to-land — designed for launching or traveling from a base on land to a target or destination on land: land-to-land missile.
- landed price — the price when delivered
- landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
- landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
- landing card — an identification card issued to a traveler for presentation to the immigration authorities.
- landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
- landing gear — the wheels, floats, etc., of an aircraft, upon which it lands and moves on ground or water.
- landing page — a web page that a user is directed to after clicking on an external hyperlink, often a page designed especially for marketing purposes: Their landing page asks for your email address and automatically enters you into a $1,000 cash drawing.
- landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
- landlessness — without landed property; not owning land: a landless noble.
- landlordless — Without a landlord.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- large-handed — generous; profuse
- large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
- laundry room — utility room
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- lay hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- leave behind — fail to bring
- legal tender — currency that may be lawfully tendered in payment of a debt, such as paper money, Federal Reserve notes, or coins.
- lend oneself — to give support, cooperation, etc
- lending rate — The lending rate is the rate of interest that you have to pay when you are repaying a loan.
- lesser panda — panda (def 2).
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- line islands — a group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean, S of the Hawaiian Islands: eight belong to the Republic of Kiribati, three are U.S. dependencies. 193 sq. mi. (500 sq. km).
- liriodendron — either of the two deciduous trees of the magnoliaceous genus Liriodendron, the tulip trees of North America or China
- live spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court