12-Letter Words Starting with L

Lallygag

Lammergeier

Lammergeyer

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

Landholding

Langbeinite

Langoustine

Lackadaisical state

With a dreamy inertia

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.

Latchstring

LATERALIZE

Lawbreaking

New York bus driver's activity

Cold-blooded children's play activity (wordplay)

The act of making legal.

Legerdemain

Legibility

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

LEGITIMISE

Legitimizer

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

Lemongrass

Film-to-video transfer technique

Adjective (-ic)

""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

Lexicology

One who studies words

LIBERALISE

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

Libertinage

Lifeguard

Lacking a centre of gravity (wordplay)

Delight model holding spirit and bubbly!

Carefree to match love of writer

They tend to fight with agile types from the gym

Unimportant people throwing digs at people in Ring

Unimportant people who get involved in fights (wordplay)

Limelight

LIMNOLOGIC

Limnologist

Linebacking

Present participle or gerund

Linecasting

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

""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.""

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.""

In the manner of a liturgy.

""The science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies.""

Livetrap

Livingness

LOBOTOMISE

LOBOTOMIZE

Locksmith

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

US dockers

Longshoring

LONGSOME tediously long

Lovingness

Lugubrious

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

LYOPHILISE same as lyophilize.lyophilize.

""LYOPHILIZE to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.""

LYSOGENIC

LYSOGENISE

LYSOGENIZE