12-letter words starting with li
- light engine — a railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons
- light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- light-haired — having light-coloured hair
- light-handed — short-handed.
- light-headed — giddy, dizzy, or delirious: After two drinks Pat began to feel lightheaded.
- light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- light-weight — light displacement.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- lighthearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
- lightweights — Plural form of lightweight.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
- likeableness — Likeability.
- likely story — dubious account
- liliuokalani — Lydia Kamekeha [kah-me-ke-hah] /ˌkɑ mɛˈkɛ hɑ/ (Show IPA), 1838–1917, last queen of the Hawaiian Islands 1891–93.
- lillibullero — a part of the refrain to a song deriding the Irish Roman Catholics, popular in England during and after the revolution of 1688.
- lilliputians — Plural form of lilliputian.
- lily-livered — weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- lily-trotter — jaçana.
- limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
- lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
- limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.
- limnological — Of or pertaining to limnology, the study of freshwater bodies of water.
- limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- lincoln park — a city in SE Michigan.
- lincolnesque — like or characteristic of Abraham Lincoln: a Lincolnesque compassion.
- lincolnshire — a county in E England. 2272 sq. mi. (5885 sq. km).
- line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- line fishing — the activity and sport of fishing using a line
- line islands — a group of islands in the central Pacific Ocean, S of the Hawaiian Islands: eight belong to the Republic of Kiribati, three are U.S. dependencies. 193 sq. mi. (500 sq. km).
- line manager — immediate supervisor
- line of fire — the straight horizontal line from the muzzle of a weapon in the direction of the axis of the bore, just prior to firing.
- line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
- line officer — a military or naval officer serving with combatant units or warships, as distinguished from a staff officer, supply officer, etc.
- line printer — a printer that produces an entire line of output at a time.
- line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
- line segment — segment (def 2b).
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- line trimmer — a gardening device used to trim the edges of lawns by means of a rapidly rotating motor-driven flexible wire or cord.
- line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
- linear graph — graph (def 2b).
- linear logic — (theory) A logic invented by Girard in 1987 that can be used in proofs related to resource usage.