12-Letter Words Starting with L

""A system of movement notation for dance that employs various symbols to record the points of a dancer's body, the direction of a dancer's movement, the tempo, and the dynamics: "Labanotation is specific enough to record the flutter of an eyelid" (Joseph Menosky).""

Labiodental

Test solutions might be found here

Rooms for scientists

Where one might find 13 lorries? A boat at sea

Labradorite

Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.

Describes The Maze complex

Like a maze

Highly convoluted

Lachrymator

In a tearful manner

LACHRYMOSE Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Laciniation

Lacquerware

Lacquerwork

Lacrimation

Lactalbumin

Some vaginal flora

Laicization

Lallygag

Lamellicorn

Jeremiah's book of the Old Testament.

*It comes after the Book of Jeremiah

Jeremiah's OT book

Lammergeier

Lammergeyer

""LAMPLIGHTER One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.""

Lampoonery

Landholding

LANDLESS having no land

Landlordism

Landlubber

Landscapist

Langbeinite

Langoustine

Lackadaisical state

With a dreamy inertia

Laparoscope

""LAPAROSCOPE 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

Big in the middle? That's generous

Of liberal disposition

Dealer Gareth, surprisingly generous

Excision of the larynx.

Plural or third person singular

Laryngitis

""An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.""

The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope.

Lascivious

Latchstring

LATERALIZE

""LATERIZE to convert to laterite, also LATERISE""

""The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country.""

Latticework

The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.

Service outlets are unsettled after redevelopment

Silly chap at leisure caught out in poet's office

Lavishness

Lawbreaking

Lawfulness

The act or process of leaching.

Leadenness

New York bus driver's activity

Cold-blooded children's play activity (wordplay)

Certain tenants

Those who might be letting last in race into lead, senior citizens, ultimately

Leatherback

Leatherette

Plural noun or verb form

Leatherneck

Leatherwood

Lecithinase

Lectionary

The act of making legal.

Legerdemain

Soldiers organise line in conflict

French soldiers

Legislation

Legislative

Ugliest Earls form law-making bodies

Legitimacy

Rightfully

With justification, run away with a friend to meet heartless lady

""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.""

The act of making legitimate.

To legitimate.

Legitimator

Lemongrass

Leopardess

Sort of insect to upset people, darn it!

Butterfly, for example

Butterfly or moth

Leprosarium

""Pl. leptocephali (-l ) One of the small, flat, transparent larvae of eels and certain other fishes, characterized by a long, narrow head.""

Leukoplakia

LEVITATION Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

""Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left handed quartz crystals, etc.""

Lexicality

""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.""

The compiling of dictionaries

The compilation of dictionaries

Writing and compiling of dictionaries

LIBERALISE

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. as, liberalistic opinions.""

Liberality

Liberalizer

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

Some third-party candidates

Libertinage

Lifeguard

Lifemanship

Lacking a centre of gravity (wordplay)

Delight model holding spirit and bubbly!

Carefree to match love of writer

Likability

Swift people (wordplay)

Swift race (wordplay)

Residents of imaginary country

""LIMITATION The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.""

LIMNOLOGIC

Linebacking

Linecasting

""Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.""

Lionization

Process of becoming fluid

'Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows / That - of her clothes' (Herrick)

Liquidambar

These are killing the business community? They're wind-ups!

LITERALIST One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Literality

""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.""

""Of, relating to, or dealing with literature: literary criticism.""

LITERATE one who can read and write

Lithograph

Type of printer

Of metal or stone surface printing

""Of or pertaining to the character of a rock, as derived from the nature and mode of aggregation of its mineral contents.""

Professional writers.

In the manner of a liturgy.

Livability

Livetrap

Lixiviation

""Act of localizing, or state of being localized.""

Locational

Fruit, sorted out, began to be put in trucks

Logicality

Logistical

Logistician

LOGNORMAL

Lounging around

Running lengthwise

New position for Mason Leghorn

Mahler song on travelling dock worker

Dock worker

In a loquacious manner.

They get the message out powerfully - these can affect one hearing things!

Lovability

Lubrication

Not usual crib (anagram) - learned works

Late night studies

Court dismissing last two tribunals after review and lots of study

Tepidity

Lymphoblast

""A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.""

LYMPHOMA a type of {tumour=n}