12-letter words starting with lo
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- loading coil — an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- loan account — finance: bank
- loan capital — borrowed capital
- loan council — (in Australia) a statutory body that controls borrowing by the states
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- loblolly bay — an evergreen tree, Gordonia lasianthus, of the tea family, having fragrant, long-stalked white flowers and egg-shaped fruit.
- loblolly boy — an assistant to the surgeon on board a ship.
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- lobster roll — lobster salad served on a frankfurter roll or the like.
- lobster tail — the flesh of the tail of any of various crustaceans, esp. the Cape crawfish, prepared as food, often by broiling in the shell
- lobular pump — a blower or pump displacing air or liquid by means of rotors having meshing lobes that act as a seal at their place of mesh.
- local colour — Local colour is used to refer to customs, traditions, dress, and other things which give a place or period of history its own particular character.
- local option — a right of choice exercised by a minor political division, as a county, especially as to allowing the sale of liquor.
- localisation — Alternative spelling of localization.
- localization — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- locarno pact — a series of treaties, concluded in Locarno, Switzerland in 1925, between Germany, France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The principal treaty, between Germany, France, and Belgium, concerned the maintenance of their existing frontiers, settlement of disputes by arbitration without resort to force, and the demilitarization of the Rhineland. This treaty was guaranteed by the United Kingdom and Italy but was violated when Germany occupied the Rhineland in 1936
- locationally — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- loco disease — locoism.
- locomobility — the ability to move from one place to another
- locomotivity — the capability of moving from one place to another
- locoregional — Restricted to a localized region of the body.
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- locus in quo — the place in which; the very place; the scene of the event.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- lodging knee — a knee reinforcing a hull horizontally, as at the ends of deck beams.
- lodging turn — a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home
- lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- loggerheaded — Dull; stupid.
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- logical unit — (networking) (LU) A primary component of SNA, an LU is a type of NAU that enables end users to communicate with each other and gain access to SNA network resources.
- logistically — of or relating to logistics.
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- logodaedalic — of or relating to plays on words and word tricks
- logodaedalus — a person who uses words with skill or cunning
- loir-et-cher — a department in central France. 2479 sq. mi. (6420 sq. km). Capital: Blois.
- lollapalooza — an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
- lollipop man — (in Britain) a person who stops traffic by holding up a circular sign on a pole to allow children to cross a road safely
- lollygagging — lallygag.
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