12-letter words starting with L
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter L. This section showcases how L at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with L, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| legitimately | 18 | in a manner acceptable to common custom | you cannot do this legitimately! |
| lovesickness | 21 | a pining for a loved one | - |
| liquefaction | 26 | the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid | - |
| longstanding | 15 | having existed for a long time | the longstanding conflict |
| legalization | 22 | the act of making lawful | - |
| longshoreman | 18 | a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | - |
| lamentations | 14 | an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah | - |
| lasciviously | 20 | in a lascivious manner | - |
| lighthearted | 20 | carefree and happy and lighthearted | her lighthearted nature |
| logistically | 18 | - | - |
| laryngoscope | 20 | a medical instrument for examining the larynx | - |
| lollygagging | 19 | - | - |
| luminescence | 18 | light from nonthermal sources | - |
| labyrinthine | 20 | resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths |
| localization | 23 | a determination of the place where something is | - |
| leapfrogging | 20 | - | - |
| liberalistic | 16 | having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
| labanotation | 14 | a system of notation for dance movements that uses symbols to represent points on a dancer's body and the direction of the dancer's movement and the tempo and the dynamics | - |
| labefactions | 19 | - | - |
| labiodentals | 15 | - | - |
| laboratories | 14 | - | - |
| labouredness | 15 | - | - |
| laboursaving | 18 | designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | - |
| labradoodles | 16 | - | - |
| labradorites | 15 | - | - |
| labyrinthian | 20 | resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | - |
| lacerability | 19 | - | - |
| lacertilians | 14 | - | - |
| lachrymaries | 22 | - | - |
| lachrymation | 22 | shedding tears | - |
| lachrymators | 22 | - | - |
| lachrymatory | 25 | relating to or prompting tears | - |
| lachrymosely | 25 | - | - |
| lachrymosity | 25 | - | - |
| laciniations | 14 | - | - |
| lacquerwares | 26 | - | - |
| lacquerworks | 30 | - | - |
| lacrimations | 16 | - | - |
| lactalbumins | 18 | - | - |
| lactescences | 18 | - | - |
| lactobacilli | 18 | - | - |
| lactoflavins | 20 | - | - |
| lactoprotein | 16 | - | - |
| lacunosities | 14 | - | - |
| ladylikeness | 20 | behavior befitting a lady | - |
| laggardliest | 15 | - | - |
| lagomorphous | 20 | - | - |
| laicisations | 14 | - | - |
| laicizations | 23 | - | - |
| lalapaloozas | 23 | - | - |
| lallapalooza | 23 | - | - |
| lallygaggers | 18 | - | - |
| lallygagging | 19 | - | - |
| lamellations | 14 | - | - |
| lamellicorns | 16 | - | - |
| laminarising | 15 | - | - |
| laminarizing | 24 | - | - |
| lammergeiers | 17 | - | - |
| lammergeyers | 20 | - | - |
| lampadedromy | 23 | - | - |
| lampadomancy | 24 | - | - |
| lampblacking | 25 | - | - |
| lamplighters | 20 | - | - |
| lampooneries | 16 | - | - |
| lamprophyres | 24 | - | - |
| lamprophyric | 26 | - | - |
| lanceolately | 17 | - | - |
| lancinations | 14 | - | - |
| landaulettes | 13 | - | - |
| landboarding | 17 | - | - |
| landfillings | 17 | - | - |
| landgravates | 17 | - | - |
| landgraviate | 17 | - | - |
| landgravines | 17 | - | - |
| landholdings | 18 | - | - |
| landlessness | 13 | - | - |
| landlordisms | 16 | - | - |
| landlubberly | 20 | inexperienced in seamanship | - |
| landscapings | 18 | - | - |
| landscapists | 17 | - | - |
| landskipping | 22 | - | - |
| landsknechts | 22 | - | - |
| langbeinites | 15 | - | - |
| langoustines | 13 | - | - |
| languageless | 14 | - | - |
| languishings | 17 | - | - |
| languishment | 18 | - | - |
| languorously | 16 | in a languorous manner | he was sprawling languorously on the sofa |
| laparoscopes | 18 | - | - |
| laparoscopic | 20 | - | - |
| laparotomies | 16 | - | - |
| lapidescence | 19 | - | - |
| lapidicolous | 17 | - | - |
| largehearted | 17 | - | - |
| larrikinisms | 18 | - | - |
| laryngectomy | 23 | surgical removal of part or all of the larynx (usually to treat cancer of the larynx) | - |
| laryngitides | 17 | - | - |
| laryngitises | 16 | - | - |
| laryngologic | 19 | - | - |
| laryngophony | 24 | - | - |
| laryngoscopy | 23 | - | - |
| laryngospasm | 20 | a closure of the larynx that blocks the passage of air to the lungs | - |
| latchstrings | 18 | - | - |
| lateenrigged | 15 | - | - |
| lateralising | 13 | - | - |
| lateralities | 12 | - | - |
| lateralizing | 22 | - | - |
| laterisation | 12 | - | - |
| laterization | 21 | - | - |
| laticiferous | 17 | - | - |
| latifundiums | 18 | - | - |
| latinisation | 12 | - | - |
| latinization | 21 | - | - |
| latirostrate | 12 | - | - |
| latitudinous | 13 | - | - |
| latticeworks | 21 | - | - |
| laudableness | 15 | the quality of being worthy of praise | - |
| launderettes | 13 | - | - |
| laundrywoman | 21 | a working woman who takes in washing | - |
| laundrywomen | 21 | - | - |
| laureateship | 17 | - | - |
| lavishnesses | 18 | - | - |
| lawbreakings | 22 | - | - |
| lawfulnesses | 18 | - | - |
| laxativeness | 22 | - | - |
| leachability | 22 | - | - |
| leadennesses | 13 | - | - |
| leaderboards | 16 | - | - |
| leaflessness | 15 | - | - |
| learnability | 17 | - | - |
| leaseholders | 16 | - | - |
| leatherbacks | 23 | - | - |
| leatherbound | 18 | - | - |
| leatherettes | 15 | - | - |
| leathergoods | 17 | - | - |
| leatherheads | 19 | - | - |
| leatheriness | 15 | - | - |
| leatherleafs | 18 | - | - |
| leathernecks | 21 | - | - |
| leatherwoods | 19 | - | - |
| leatherworks | 22 | - | - |
| lecithinases | 17 | - | - |
| lectionaries | 14 | - | - |
| lectisternia | 14 | - | - |
| lectureships | 19 | - | - |
| legalisation | 13 | the act of making lawful | - |
| legerdemains | 16 | - | - |
| legibilities | 15 | - | - |
| legionnaires | 13 | - | - |
| legislations | 13 | - | - |
| legislatives | 16 | - | - |
| legislatress | 13 | - | - |
| legislatures | 13 | - | - |
| legitimacies | 17 | - | - |
| legitimating | 16 | - | - |
| legitimation | 15 | the act of making lawful | - |
| legitimatise | 15 | make legal | - |
| legitimatize | 24 | make legal | - |
| legitimators | 15 | - | - |
| legitimisers | 15 | - | - |
| legitimising | 16 | - | - |
| legitimistic | 17 | - | - |
| legitimizers | 24 | - | - |
| legitimizing | 25 | - | - |
| leiotrichies | 17 | - | - |
| leiotrichous | 17 | - | - |
| leisureliest | 12 | - | - |
| leisurewears | 15 | - | - |
| lemongrasses | 15 | - | - |
| lenticellate | 14 | - | - |
| lenticularly | 17 | - | - |
| lentiviruses | 15 | - | - |
| leontopodium | 17 | edelweiss | - |
| leopardesses | 15 | - | - |
| leopardskins | 19 | - | - |
| lepidomelane | 17 | a mica that is a biotite containing iron | - |
| lepidopteran | 17 | insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | - |
| lepidopteron | 17 | insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales | - |
| lepidosirens | 15 | - | - |
| leprosariums | 16 | - | - |
| leptocephali | 21 | - | - |
| leptodactyls | 20 | - | - |
| leptosomatic | 18 | - | - |
| lethargising | 17 | - | - |
| lethargizing | 26 | - | - |
| letterboxing | 22 | - | - |
| letterspaces | 16 | - | - |
| leucaemogens | 17 | - | - |
| leucitohedra | 18 | - | - |
| leucocytoses | 19 | - | - |
| leucocytosis | 19 | an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia) | - |
| leucocytotic | 21 | - | - |
| leucodermias | 17 | - | - |
| leucoplakias | 20 | - | - |
| leucoplastid | 17 | - | - |
| leucopoieses | 16 | - | - |
| leucopoiesis | 16 | - | - |
| leucopoietic | 18 | - | - |
| leucorrhoeal | 17 | - | - |
| leucorrhoeas | 17 | - | - |
| leukaemogens | 19 | - | - |
| leukemogenic | 21 | - | - |
| leukocytoses | 21 | - | - |
| leukocytosis | 21 | an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia) | - |
| leukocytotic | 23 | - | - |
| leukoplakias | 22 | - | - |
| leukopoieses | 18 | - | - |
| leukopoiesis | 18 | - | - |
| leukopoietic | 20 | - | - |
| leukotrienes | 16 | - | - |
| levitational | 15 | - | - |
| levorotatory | 18 | rotating to the left | - |
| lexicalising | 22 | - | - |
| lexicalities | 21 | - | - |
| lexicalizing | 31 | - | - |
| lexicography | 30 | the act of writing dictionaries | - |
| lexicologies | 22 | - | - |
| lexicologist | 22 | a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | - |
| lexigraphies | 25 | - | - |
| liablenesses | 14 | - | - |
| liberalisers | 14 | - | - |
| liberalising | 15 | - | - |
| liberalities | 14 | - | - |
| liberalizers | 23 | - | - |
| liberalizing | 24 | - | - |
| libertarians | 14 | - | - |
| liberticidal | 17 | - | - |
| liberticides | 17 | - | - |
| libertinages | 15 | - | - |
| libertinisms | 16 | - | - |
| libidinosity | 18 | - | - |
| libidinously | 18 | - | - |
| licentiation | 14 | - | - |
| licentiously | 17 | in a licentious and promiscuous manner | - |
| lickspittles | 20 | - | - |
| lieutenantry | 15 | - | - |
| lifeguarding | 18 | - | - |
| lifelessness | 15 | not having life | - |
| lifelikeness | 19 | - | - |
| lifemanships | 22 | - | - |
| lightweights | 23 | - | - |
| ligniperdous | 16 | - | - |
| ligulifloral | 16 | - | - |
| likabilities | 18 | - | - |
| likeableness | 18 | - | - |
| likelinesses | 16 | - | - |
| lilliputians | 14 | - | - |
| limacologies | 17 | - | - |
| limacologist | 17 | - | - |
| limbernesses | 16 | - | - |
| limelighters | 18 | - | - |
| limelighting | 19 | - | - |
| liminalities | 14 | - | - |
| limitational | 14 | - | - |
| limnological | 17 | of or relating to limnology | - |
| limnologists | 15 | - | - |
| limnophilous | 19 | - | - |
| limpidnesses | 17 | - | - |
| linebackings | 21 | - | - |
| linebreeding | 16 | - | - |
| linecastings | 15 | - | - |
| linguistical | 15 | - | - |
| linguistries | 13 | - | - |
| linocuttings | 15 | - | - |
| lionisations | 12 | - | - |
| lionizations | 21 | - | - |
| lipidoplasts | 17 | - | - |
| lipographies | 20 | - | - |
| lipoproteins | 16 | - | - |
| liposuctions | 16 | - | - |
| liquefacient | 26 | - | - |
| liquefactive | 29 | - | - |
| liquescences | 25 | - | - |
| liquidambars | 26 | - | - |
| liquidations | 22 | - | - |
| liquidnesses | 22 | - | - |
| liquifaction | 26 | - | - |
| liquifactive | 29 | - | - |
| liriodendron | 14 | tulip trees | - |
| lisianthuses | 15 | - | - |
| lissomnesses | 14 | - | - |
| listenership | 17 | - | - |
| listlessness | 12 | a feeling of lack of interest or energy | - |
| literalisers | 12 | - | - |
| literalising | 13 | - | - |
| literalistic | 14 | - | - |
| literalities | 12 | - | - |
| literalizers | 21 | - | - |
| literalizing | 22 | - | - |
| literariness | 12 | - | - |
| literaryisms | 17 | - | - |
| literateness | 12 | - | - |
| literosities | 12 | - | - |
| lithographed | 22 | - | - |
| lithographer | 21 | a printmaker who uses lithography | - |
| lithographic | 23 | of or produced by or involved in lithography | lithographic reproduction |
| litholatries | 15 | - | - |
| litholatrous | 15 | - | - |
| lithological | 18 | - | - |
| lithologists | 16 | - | - |
| lithomancies | 19 | - | - |
| lithometeors | 17 | - | - |
| lithophagous | 21 | - | - |
| lithophilous | 20 | - | - |
| lithospermum | 21 | annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia | - |
| lithospheres | 20 | - | - |
| lithospheric | 22 | - | - |
| lithotomical | 19 | - | - |
| lithotomists | 17 | - | - |
| lithotripter | 17 | - | - |
| lithotriptic | 19 | - | - |
| lithotriptor | 17 | - | - |
| lithotritics | 17 | - | - |
| lithotrities | 15 | - | - |
| lithotritise | 15 | - | - |
| lithotritist | 15 | - | - |
| lithotritize | 24 | - | - |
| lithotritors | 15 | - | - |
| litterateurs | 12 | - | - |
| littlenesses | 12 | - | - |
| liturgically | 18 | - | - |
| liturgiology | 17 | the study of liturgies | - |
| livabilities | 17 | - | - |
| liveableness | 17 | - | - |
| livebloggers | 19 | - | - |
| liveblogging | 20 | - | - |
| livelinesses | 15 | - | - |
| liverishness | 18 | - | - |
| livermoriums | 19 | - | - |
| livestreamed | 18 | - | - |
| livetrapping | 20 | - | - |
| livingnesses | 16 | - | - |
| lixiviations | 22 | - | - |
| loadsamoneys | 18 | - | - |
| loadsamonies | 15 | - | - |
| loathfulness | 18 | - | - |
| lobotomising | 17 | - | - |
| lobotomizing | 26 | - | - |
| localisation | 14 | a determination of the place where something is | - |
| locationally | 17 | - | - |
| locksmithery | 26 | - | - |
| locksmithing | 24 | - | - |
| lockstitched | 24 | - | - |
| lockstitches | 23 | - | - |
| locomobility | 21 | - | - |
| locomotively | 22 | - | - |
| locomotivity | 22 | - | - |
| logagraphias | 19 | - | - |
| loganberries | 15 | - | - |
| loganiaceous | 15 | - | - |
| loggerheaded | 19 | (used informally) stupid | - |
| logicalities | 15 | - | - |
| logisticians | 15 | - | - |
| lognormality | 18 | - | - |
| logocentrism | 17 | - | - |
| logodaedalic | 17 | - | - |
| logodaedalus | 15 | - | - |
| logographers | 19 | - | - |
| logographies | 19 | - | - |
| logomachists | 20 | - | - |
| lollapaloosa | 14 | - | - |
| lollapalooza | 23 | - | - |
| lollygaggers | 18 | - | - |
| lomentaceous | 16 | - | - |
| lonelinesses | 12 | - | - |
| lonesomeness | 14 | a disposition toward being alone | - |
| longicaudate | 16 | - | - |
| longipennate | 15 | - | - |
| longirostral | 13 | - | - |
| longitudinal | 14 | over an extended time | a longitudinal study of twins |
| longshoremen | 18 | - | - |
| longshorings | 17 | - | - |
| longsomeness | 15 | - | - |
| loosestrifes | 15 | - | - |
| lophobranchs | 24 | - | - |
| lophophorate | 22 | - | - |
| lopsidedness | 16 | an oblique or slanting asymmetry | - |
| loquaciously | 26 | in a chatty loquacious manner | `When I was young,' she continued loquaciously, `I used to do all sorts of naughty things' |
| lordlinesses | 13 | - | - |
| lordolatries | 13 | - | - |
| loudspeakers | 19 | - | - |
| lovabilities | 17 | - | - |
| loveableness | 17 | - | - |
| lovelessness | 15 | - | - |
| lovelinesses | 15 | - | - |
| lovelornness | 15 | - | - |
| loveworthier | 21 | - | - |
| loveworthies | 21 | - | - |
| lovingnesses | 16 | - | - |
| loxodromical | 24 | - | - |
| lubberliness | 16 | - | - |
| lubrications | 16 | - | - |
| lubriciously | 19 | - | - |
| lubritoriums | 16 | - | - |
| luckenbooths | 23 | - | - |
| luckengowans | 22 | - | - |
| lucklessness | 18 | - | - |
| lucubrations | 16 | - | - |
| luftmenschen | 22 | - | - |
| lugubriously | 18 | in a sorrowful lugubrious manner | his long face lugubriously reflecting a hidden and unexpressed compassion |
| lukewarmness | 21 | a warmness resembling the temperature of the skin | - |
| lumberjacket | 29 | - | - |
| lumbriciform | 23 | - | - |
| luminiferous | 17 | - | - |
| luminosities | 14 | - | - |
| luminousness | 14 | the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | - |
| lumpectomies | 20 | - | - |
| luncheonette | 17 | - | - |
| lusciousness | 14 | extreme appetizingness | - |
| lustrousness | 12 | - | - |
| luteotrophic | 19 | - | - |
| luteotrophin | 17 | - | - |
| luteotropins | 14 | - | - |
| luxulianites | 19 | - | - |
| luxullianite | 19 | - | - |
| luxulyanites | 22 | - | - |
| luxuriancies | 21 | - | - |
| luxuriations | 19 | - | - |
| lycanthropes | 22 | - | - |
| lycanthropic | 24 | - | - |
| lychnoscopes | 24 | - | - |
| lymphangioma | 25 | benign angioma consisting of a mass of lymphatic vessels | - |
| lymphangitic | 25 | - | - |
| lymphangitis | 23 | inflammation of a lymph vessel | - |
| lymphoblasts | 24 | - | - |
| lymphography | 31 | roentgenographic examination of lymph nodes and lymph vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces a lymphangiogram | - |
| lymphomatoid | 25 | - | - |
| lymphomatous | 24 | - | - |
| lymphopenias | 24 | - | - |
| lyophilisers | 20 | - | - |
| lyophilising | 21 | - | - |
| lyophilizers | 29 | - | - |
| lyophilizing | 30 | - | - |
| lyosorptions | 17 | - | - |
| lysogenicity | 21 | the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material | - |
| lysogenising | 17 | - | - |
| lysogenizing | 26 | - | - |
| lysolecithin | 20 | - | - |
