13-letter words starting with li
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightlessness — The state or condition of being lightless; absence of light.
- lightning bug — firefly.
- lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- like ninepins — If you say that people or things are going down like ninepins, you mean that large numbers of them are suddenly becoming ill, collapsing, or doing very badly.
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- like-for-like — (of a comparison, figures, statistics) that measure identical things, the same period in different years, etc
- limbic system — a ring of interconnected structures in the midline of the brain around the hypothalamus, involved with emotion and memory and with homeostatic regulatory systems.
- lime liniment — carron oil.
- limitlessness — Property of being limitless, infiniteness, boundlessness.
- lincoln green — an olive-green color.
- lincoln's inn — See under Inns of Court (def 1).
- linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
- line breeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
- line integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given curve approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the length of the arcs in the partition times the value of the function at some point on each arc.
- line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- linearisation — Alternative spelling of linearization.
- linearization — The modification of a system such that its output is linearly dependent on its input.
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
- lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- linoleic acid — an unsaturated fatty acid, C 18 H 32 O 2 , occurring as a glyceride in drying oils, as in linseed oil.
- lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
- lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liqueur glass — a small glass intended for drinking liqueur from
- liquid assets — assets in the form of money or easily convertible into money
- liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
- liquid storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- listenability — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.
- listerellosis — listeriosis.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- literacy test — an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.
- lithesomeness — the quality of being flexible and supple