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13-letter words starting with l

  • letter opener — bladed tool for opening envelopes
  • letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
  • letter-writer — a person who writes letters or communications
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
  • leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
  • leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
  • levant storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • level 1 cache — primary cache
  • level 2 cache — secondary cache
  • level pegging — If two opponents in a competition or contest are level pegging, they are equal with each other.
  • level5 object — From Information Builders.
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • lever tumbler — a flat metal tumbler in a lock.
  • levy en masse — the conscription of the civilian population in large numbers in the face of impending invasion
  • lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
  • lexical scope — (programming)   (Or "static scope") When the scope of an identifier is fixed at compile time to some region in the source code containing the identifier's declaration. This means that an identifier is only accessible within that region (including procedures declared within it). This contrasts with dynamic scope where the scope depends on the nesting of procedure and function calls at run time. Statically scoped languages differ as to whether the scope is limited to the smallest block (including begin/end blocks) containing the identifier's declaration (e.g. C, Perl) or to whole function and procedure bodies (e.g. ECMAScript), or some larger unit of code (e.g. ?). The former is known as static nested scope.
  • lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
  • lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
  • lexicological — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
  • lexigraphical — Misspelling of lexicographical.
  • li hsien-nien — Li Xiannian.
  • li hung-chang — 1823–1901, Chinese statesman.
  • libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
  • libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
  • liberal elite — the group of people in a society who are considered as having a high level of education and liberal ideas
  • liberal party — a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.
  • liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
  • liberationism — the principles of liberationists
  • liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • liberty party — the first antislavery political party, organized in 1839 and merged with the Free Soil party in 1848.
  • librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
  • library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
  • library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
  • library table — a large pedestal writing table or desk.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
  • lichenic acid — fumaric acid.
  • lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
  • lick the dust — to be servile; grovel: cf. Mic. 7:17
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • lickety-split — at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.
  • licking river — a river in E Kentucky, flowing NW to the Ohio River. 320 miles (515 km) long.
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
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