14-letter words that end in t
- labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
- lance sergeant — a sergeant of the lowest rank.
- langue de chat — a flat sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
- late check-out — A late check-out at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check out later than the normal time.
- latent content — the hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream, discoverable by analysis of the content of the dream.
- latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
- lattice defect — defect (def 3).
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- lay sb to rest — If you say that someone who has died is laid to rest, you mean that they are buried.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
- learn by heart — memorize
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- lend-lease act — the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war.
- letter-perfect — knowing one's part, lesson, or the like, perfectly.
- letters patent — legal conveyancing documents
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- liability suit — a claim for damages based on the plaintiff's claim of the defendant's liability
- library ticket — a ticket admitting a person access to a library, esp a reference library
- life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
- lifetime limit — The lifetime limit of a health insurance plan is the maximum coverage that it offers, after which payment stops, and the policyholder must pay all remaining costs.
- lift attendant — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
- light aircraft — A light aircraft is a small aeroplane that is designed to carry a small number of passengers or a small amount of goods.
- like this/that — You use like this or like that when you are drawing attention to something that you are doing or that someone else is doing.
- line of credit — credit line (def 2).
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- lipogrammatist — a person who writes lipograms
- lipstick plant — any of several trailing, epiphytic vines of the genus Aeschynanthus, of the gesneria family, especially A. pulcher or A. radicans, native to southeast Asia, having tubular red or orange flowers.
- liquidationist — pertaining to or promoting a theory of economics which holds that governments should not interfere in a recession
- listening post — Military. a post or position, as in advance of a defensive line, established for the purpose of listening to detect the enemy's movements.
- literary agent — a person who manages the business affairs of an author
- liturgiologist — a person who studies liturgiology
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- loan agreement — an agreement on the terms of a loan
- loan repayment — a repayment of part of a loan, usually monthly
- lombard street — a street in London, England: a financial center.
- long drawn out — A long drawn out process or conflict lasts an unnecessarily long time or an unpleasantly long time.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- low-angle shot — a shot taken with the camera placed in a position below and pointing upward at the subject.
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- m'naghten test — a rule that defines a person as legally insane when that person cannot distinguish right from wrong.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- mackinaw trout — lake trout.
- macrobiologist — One who studies macrobiology.
- magnetic chart — a chart showing the magnetic properties of a portion of the earth's surface, as dip, variation, and intensity.
- main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell