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12-letter words starting with le

  • lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
  • 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)
  • ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
  • ledger paper — a foldable paper with a smooth finish.
  • ledger plate — a strip of wood laid flat across the tops of studding as a support for joists.
  • ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
  • lee kuan yew — 1923–2015, Singaporean statesman; prime minister of Singapore 1959–90, during which period his party's authoritarian rule was criticized but the country's economy progressed rapidly
  • leeds castle — a castle near Maidstone in Kent: the home of several medieval queens of England
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
  • left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • left-justify — If printed text is left-justified, each line begins at the same distance from the left-hand edge of the page or column.
  • legal entity — a person or organization that can enter into contracts, and take part in legal action
  • legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
  • legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
  • legal tender — currency that may be lawfully tendered in payment of a debt, such as paper money, Federal Reserve notes, or coins.
  • legal weight — the weight of merchandise itself plus that of its immediate wrapping material but not of the outside shipping container: used especially in some Latin American countries for the purpose of assessing import duties.
  • legalisation — Alternative spelling of legalization.
  • legalization — to make legal; authorize.
  • legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
  • legislations — the act of making or enacting laws.
  • legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
  • legitimately — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimatize — to make legitimate.
  • legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
  • legitimistic — inclined towards, or relating to, the opinions of legitimists
  • legitimizing — Present participle of legitimize.
  • 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).
  • leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
  • leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
  • leisure suit — a man's casual suit, consisting of trousers and a matching jacket styled like a shirt, often made in pastel colors.
  • leisure time — free time
  • lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
  • lemnian seal — the earth of the Greek island of Lemnos, which is famous for its medicinal properties
  • lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
  • lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
  • lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
  • lemon yellow — a clear, yellowish-green color.
  • 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.
  • lenni lenape — Delaware (defs 5, 6).
  • lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
  • lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
  • lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
  • leon trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
  • leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
  • leonine city — a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber fortified by Pope Leo IV
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