8-letter words starting with long
- long ago — of or relating to the distant past or to remote events; ancient: long-ago exploits remembered only in folk tales.
- long arm — a long pole fitted with any of various devices, as a hook or clamp, for performing tasks otherwise out of reach.
- long ess — a style of the letter s, suggesting a lowercase f in form, formerly common in handwriting and as a type character.
- long hop — a short-pitched ball, which can easily be hit
- long leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the boundary almost directly behind the batsman's wicket
- long one — Informal. tall one.
- long pig — (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals.
- long run — happening or presented over a long period of time or having a long course of performances: a long-run hit play.
- long tin — a tall long loaf of bread
- long tom — a towed 155mm field cannon produced by the U.S. throughout World War II.
- long ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- long-ago — of or relating to the distant past or to remote events; ancient: long-ago exploits remembered only in folk tales.
- long-day — requiring a long photoperiod in order to flower.
- long-off — a fielding position on the off side near the boundary almost directly behind the bowler
- long-run — happening or presented over a long period of time or having a long course of performances: a long-run hit play.
- longboat — (formerly) the largest boat carried by a sailing ship.
- longbows — Plural form of longbow.
- longcase — A longcase clock.
- longeron — a main longitudinal brace or support on an airplane.
- longeval — Long-lived; longevous.
- longford — a county in Leinster, in the N Republic of Ireland. 403 sq. mi. (1044 sq. km). County seat: Longford.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.
- longhand — writing of the ordinary kind, in which words are written out in full (distinguished from shorthand).
- longhead — a dolichocephalic person.
- longhorn — any of numerous, often brightly colored beetles of the family Cerambycidae, usually with long antennae, the larva of which bores into the wood of living or decaying trees.
- longings — Plural form of longing.
- longinus — Dionysius Cassius [kash-uh s] /ˈkæʃ əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 213?–273, Greek philosopher and rhetorician.
- longjump — jumping contest decided by length
- longkang — (Singapore, Malaysia) drain.
- longleaf — A longleaf pine, Pirus palustris, or the wood of this tree.
- longlegs — A daddy longlegs.
- longline — A type of deep-sea fishing gear consisting of a long main line anchored to the bottom to which shorter lines with baited hooks are fastened at intervals.
- longlist — A first list, from which a shortlist is prepared.
- longmont — a city in N central Colorado.
- longneck — a bottle of beer.
- longness — (rare) length, lengthiness.
- longship — a medieval ship used in northern Europe especially by the Norse, having a long, narrow, open hull, a single square sail, and a large number of oars, which provided most of the propulsion.
- longshot — Alternative spelling of long shot.
- longsome — tiresomely long; so protracted as to weary or cause boredom.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- longtail — A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- longterm — covering a relatively long period of time: a long-term lease.
- longtime — existing, occurring, or continuing for a long period of time; longstanding: longtime friends celebrating 50 years of association.
- longueur — a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like: The longueurs in this book make it almost unreadable.
- longview — a city in NE Texas.
- longwall — noting or pertaining to a means of extracting coal or other minerals in an underground mine from a continuous face, the roof before the face being supported at intervals by temporary or movable artificial supports. Compare room-and-pillar.
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- longways — longwise.
- longwise — lengthwise
- longwood — a city in central Florida.
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