12-letter words starting with l
- london plane — a tall, hardy, widely spreading plane tree, Platanus acerifolia, of North America, having clusters of round, bristly fruit.
- london pride — a saxifragaceous plant, a hybrid between Saxifraga spathularis and S. umbrosa, having a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers
- lonesomeness — depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely: to feel lonesome.
- long account — the account of a customer who buys securities or commodities on margin.
- long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- long gallery — a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
- long weekend — a weekend holiday extended by a day or days on either side
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-handles — long underwear.
- long-lasting — enduring or existing for a long period of time: a long-lasting friendship.
- long-playing — of or relating to microgroove records devised to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
- long-running — Something that is long-running has been in existence, or has been performed, for a long time.
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- long-sleeved — having long sleeves
- long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- long-tongued — talking too much or too openly, especially of private or confidential matters; chattering; gossipy.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
- longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- longipennate — (of birds) having long slender wings or feathers
- longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
- longitudinal — of or relating to longitude or length: longitudinal measurement.
- longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
- longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
- longsomeness — tiresome lengthiness
- longstanding — existing or occurring for a long time: a longstanding feud.
- longwindedly — Alternative spelling of long-windedly.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion
- look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- look down on — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- look in (on) — to pay a brief visit (to)
- look out for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- lookie-likie — a lookalike
- lookout post — a place from which a guard or sentry can keep watch
- looney-tunes — crazy; demented
- loop antenna — a coil of large diameter, used as an antenna, esp. in direction-finding equipment and in radio receivers
- loop reactor — A loop reactor is a reactor in which the material is pumped round one or more vessels or stages in a continuous process.
- loop through — loop
- looping mill — a rolling mill for bar stock, wire, and the like, having the successive stands side by side so that the metal forms a loop in passing from stand to stand.
- loose cannon — a person whose reckless behavior endangers the efforts or welfare of others.
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- loose-footed — (of a fore-and-aft sail) not having the foot bent to a boom.