12-letter words that end in n
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- kintergarden — Misspelling of kindergarten.
- kirk session — the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church
- kite balloon — a barrage balloon intended for use in information-gathering and observation; it is usually tethered to the ground and has lobes to keep it stable and pointing into the wind
- kith and kin — friends and family
- kittikachorn — Thanom [thah-nom] /θɑˈnɒm/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, Thai army officer and statesman: premier 1963–73.
- knocked down — hit and felled: by a vehicle, etc.
- knocked-down — composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
- ku klux klan — U.S. History. a secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.
- labanotation — a system for recording ballet movements invented by Rudolph Laban
- labilization — to cause to become labile.
- laboratorian — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- labyrinthian — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
- lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
- lake balaton — a large shallow lake in W Hungary. Area: 689 sq km (266 sq miles)
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- lake mälaren — a lake in S Sweden, extending 121 km (75 miles) west from Stockholm, where it joins with an inlet of the Baltic Sea (the Saltsjön). Area: 1140 sq km (440 sq miles)
- lake nipigon — a lake in central Canada, in NW Ontario, draining into Lake Superior via the Nipigon River. Area: 4843 sq km (1870 sq miles)
- lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
- lake vättern — a lake in S central Sweden: the second largest lake in Sweden; linked to Lake Vänern by the Göta Canal; drains into the Baltic. Area: 1912 sq km (738 sq miles)
- laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
- laterization — the weathering process by which rock is changed to laterite.
- latinization — to cause to conform to the customs, traditions, beliefs, etc., of the Latins or the Latin Church.
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- 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.
- layaway plan — a method of purchasing by which the purchaser reserves an article with a down payment and claims it only after paying the full balance.
- lead balloon — a total failure
- leading rein — a rein used to lead a horse
- led zeppelin — British rock group (1968–80); comprised Jimmy Page (born 1944), Robert Plant (born 1948), John Paul Jones (born 1946), and John Bonham (1948–80): recordings include Led Zeppelin I (1969), Led Zeppelin IV (1971), and Physical Graffiti (1975)
- legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
- legalization — to make legal; authorize.
- legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
- leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
- lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
- levalloisian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a distinctive late Lower and Middle Paleolithic method of preparing a stone core so that preformed thin, oval or triangular flakes with sharp edges could be struck from it.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- levorotation — Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
- lichtenstein — Roy, 1923–97, U.S. painter and sculptor.
- life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
- light cannon — a particularly powerful torch, spotlight, or searchlight
- liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.