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11-letter words starting with l

  • lamentation — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
  • lamentingly — to feel or express sorrow or regret for: to lament his absence.
  • laminations — Plural form of lamination.
  • laminectomy — the surgical removal of part of the posterior arch of a vertebra to provide access to the spinal canal, as for the excision of a ruptured disk.
  • lammergeier — the largest Eurasian bird of prey, Gypaëtus barbatus, ranging in the mountains from southern Europe to China, having a wingspread of 9 to 10 feet (2.7 to 3 meters) and black feathers hanging from below the bill like a mustache.
  • lammergeyer — Alternative form of lammergeier.
  • lamotrigine — An anticonvulsant drug used in the treatment of epilepsy.
  • lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
  • lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
  • lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
  • lampshading — The practice of decorating lampshades.
  • lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
  • lan manager — (operating system)   Microsoft's OS/2-based network operating system. Developed in conjunction with 3Com, Lan Manager runs as a task under OS/2. Because of this, a file server may concurrently be used for other tasks, such as database services. It offers good mulitasking.
  • lanarkshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • lancastrian — of or relating to the royal family of Lancaster.
  • lanceolated — Alternative form of lanceolate.
  • lancet arch — an arch having a head that is acutely pointed.
  • lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
  • lancinating — to stab or pierce.
  • lancination — A tearing or laceration.
  • land breeze — a coastal breeze blowing at night from land to sea, caused by the difference in the rate of cooling of their respective surfaces.
  • land bridge — Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals: a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.
  • land freeze — a legal restraint on the sale or transfer of land.
  • land of nod — the mythical land of sleep.
  • land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
  • land patent — an official document by which title to a portion of public land is conveyed from the government.
  • land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
  • land worker — a person who works on the land
  • land-holder — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
  • landgrabber — the seizing of land by a nation, state, or organization, especially illegally, underhandedly, or unfairly.
  • landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
  • landholders — Plural form of landholder.
  • landholding — a holder, owner, or occupant of land.
  • landing net — a small, bag-shaped net with a handle at the mouth, for scooping a hooked fish out of the water and bringing it to shore or into a boat.
  • landlordism — the practice under which privately owned property is leased or rented to others for occupancy or cultivation.
  • landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
  • landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
  • landscapers — Plural form of landscaper.
  • landscaping — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
  • landscapist — an artist who paints landscapes.
  • landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
  • landsteiner — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1943, Austrian pathologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1930.
  • langbeinite — a mineral, K 2 Mg 2 (SO 4) 3 , occurring in marine salt deposits, used as a fertilizer because of its potassium content.
  • langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
  • langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
  • langue d'oc — the Romance language of medieval southern France: developed into modern Provençal.
  • languescent — becoming languid
  • languidness — The property of being languid.
  • languishing — becoming languid, in any way.
  • languourous — Alternative form of languorous.
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