11-Letter Words Starting with L

LABIALIZE To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

""Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v. f and v.""

Labiovelar

Laborious

Skipping work (wordplay)

Kind of device

Like certain devices

""A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

LACCOLITH A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.

Deep cuts or tears in the flesh

Allotments in Cluny

What animal bites may cause

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lacrimator.lacrimator.

LACINIATE LACINIAE lacinia

Lackluster

In a laconic manner.

English word

English word

Shedding tears; same as lachrymation.lachrymation.

Lacrimator

The albumin contained in milk and obtained from whey.

LACTATION A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

""Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants. as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.""

Godiva's digits (wordplay)

Manicurist's favorite dessert (wordplay)

Godiva identifies (wordplay)

""LAGGARD one who lags, also LAGGER""

""LAICIZE to free from clerical control, also LAICISE""

Lallygag

Lambrequin

Hardly Mensa material

None too smart

Not too smart

Lamellate

Having antenn\'91 terminating in a group of flat lamell\'91; said of certain coleopterous insects.

Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.

Expression of sorrow

Sobbing Tory leader in weak state

Expression of sorrow.

Laminarian

Layers upon layers

Layers.

Laminitis

""A large predatory bird (Gypaetus barbatus) of the vulture family, ranging from the mountainous regions of southern Europe to China and having a wide wingspan and black plumage. Also called bearded vulture , ossifrage .""

""A very large vulture (Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.Gypa\'89tus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle.""

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

""Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains). as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).""

Landholder

Propertied

""The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands.""

Clumsy seagoers

Present participle or gerund

Landowning

Outside consultants (wordplay)

Manages to get garnishes (wordplay)

Outside property managers (wordplay)

The act of doing various grounds maintenance

A painter of landscapes.

Landslide

""An evaporite mineral, K 2 Mg 2 (SO 4 ) 3 , used as a source of potassium sulfate for fertilizer.""

Langlaufer

Squat lobsters, in American cuisine

Norway lobster

Shellfish

LANGUID lacking vitality

Languisher

Novice suffering agony whilst pining

In decline

Lankiness

Lanthanide

""A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.""

Laparotomy performed with a laparoscope.

Lapidify

Larcenous

Largemouth

Largeness

Larkiness

The study of part of the throat

Enduring quality

Durability.

It's out for welcome guests

Cord for opening a door

Cord for fastening

LATERALIZE

Lateralize

Latifundio

""Pl. latifundia (-d - ) A great landed estate, especially of the ancient Romans.""

Of geographical measurements

Criss-crossed arrangement

Grid construction

Trellis makeup

Place for washing and drying clothes

Washing establishment

Coffee houses inferior to European shop that's cleaner

Laundress

Laundrette

Laureation

Lavalliere

Lavender

Criminals

An act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.

Completely illegal behaviour

Total anarchy

Lawrencium

Leadership

Leafhopper

Leafleteer

Leaflet

Leakiness

Jumped over (someone) in play

Jumped or skipped over

Skipped some steps

Profound knowledge.

I can occupy the House for a term!

Person with property rights

One renting a property

Endangered large sea turtle

Largest living turtle

Artificial S&M material

Imitation hide

The French badly treat the English imitation hide

A stiff leathery-leaved fern (Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.Polypodium scouleri) of Western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib.

Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable; leathery.

Third-year Marine

Gyrene (3rd)

Veteran Marine, in slang

""A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy. Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; called also moosewood, and wicopy.""

Lebensraum

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

Foreign posts

Legendary

Magician's skill

Magician's line of work

A kind of trickery.

Soldiers in line go to take a battering ram

Members of a troop of up to 6,000 Roman army soldiers

One GI in real trouble as a soldier

Member of an elite military unit

Form a line - ignore soldier

The act of making or enacting laws; legislation{1}.

Enacting of laws

Passing of bills

Group of laws

Kind of aide

Kind of aide or session

Ones on a diet

Lawmaking body (of a state)

Sorting, Riksdag or Knesset.

Diet, for example

Made lawful daughter born in wedlock first

Legitimate

""LEGITIMATE Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.""

LEISHMANIA

Leishmania

Lemniscate

Moths and butterflies

Butterflies and moths

Polite padre converted large group of fliers

Little men of Bogland.

Wee hoarders of legend

Pot of gold keepers

Adjective (-ous)

Pl. leprosariums or leprosaria (- - ) A hospital for the treatment of leprosy.

LEPTOSPIRE

Lesbianism

Lethality

Sajak and White?

Sajak and White (wordplay)

Items of printed stationery

Leucoplast

Leukopenia

""An abnormal condition characterized by white spots or patches on mucous membranes, especially of the mouth and vulva. Also called leukoplasia .""

Adjective (-ic)

LEUKORRHEA

Leukorrhea

Like Frankenstein's monster (wordplay)

Not easily rattled

Showing good judgment

Levigation

Levitation

""LEXICALIZE To make into a word, coin into a word; as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.as, The concept expressed by German "Gemuetlichkeit" is not lexicalized in English.""

Lexicalize

Financial obligations

LIBATION a ceremonial pouring of a liquid

Relaxed lad is rebel, I suspect

Liberalise

Liberalism

Liberalist

LIBERALIZE To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.

""One who, or that which, liberalizes.""

Liberalize

LIBERAL one who is open to ideas of progress or reform

Liberation

Believer in free will

*Political party of Gary Johnson

Employee at the Ron Paul Archive (wordplay)

Libertinism; license.

Libidinal

LIBRATION The act or state of librating.

Licentiate

Officer's post

Stratego pieces

It's novel, when woman backs this after 10

Lifeguard

English word

Lifesaving

""Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.as, a strong ligamentous membrane.""

Fees for transporting freight in or about harbors

Lightplane

LIKABLE able to be liked

Tiny person (from 'Gulliver's Travels')

A minor character of Swift

Swift little creature

Subject of some statutes

Restrictions or shortcomings

Large fake with small checks

Lineality

""LINEAMENT One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; usually in the plural. plural.""

LINEARISE

Linearity

LINEARIZE

Bills that can really bring you down (wordplay)

Defensive footballers

Football defensemen

Football Abbr. LB Any of the defensive players forming a second line of defense behind the ends and tackles.

Linecaster

Printing A machine for casting metal type in lines.

Linerboard

King Richard I, they say

A millionaire is so courageous

King Richard's epithet

""LIONIZE to treat as a celebrity, also LIONISE""

Lipreading

Sweet gum

""LIQUIDATE To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness); clear and certain.""

The winding up (of a company)

Conversion (of assets) into cash

Process of converting into cash

Liquidator

Literalism

Literalist

""LITERALIZE To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture. spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.""

Literalize

The quality or state of being literal; literal import

Literation

Bodies of writing

They may be studied along with languages

Belles-lettres

Art prints

""The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic. Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.""

Lithophane

Litigation

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

Writer's rubbish: director has to overlook first of repeated characters

Essayist

Littermate

""LIVABLE suitable for living in, also LIVEABLE""

Variant of livable .

Livetrap

""LIXIVIATE To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.""

Separation by percolation

Loadmaster

Loathness

Ticker tapes (wordplay)

In an offensive way

Lobulation

""LOCALIZE to confine or limit to a certain place, also LOCALISE""

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; said of capsules.