long haul | a journey over a long distance, it's a long haul from New York to Los Angeles |
long fly | a gymnastic exercise involving a long leap from a vaulting horse |
broad jump long jump | the act of jumping as far as possible from a running start |
whist long whist short whist | a card game for four players who form two partnerships, a pack of cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six |
long shot | a venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards |
long division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail |
long-billed marsh wren Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
long-eared owl Asio otus | slender European owl of coniferous forests with long ear tufts |
soft-shell clam steamer steamer clam long-neck clam Mya arenaria | an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe |
stilt stiltbird longlegs long-legs stilt plover Himantopus stilt | long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons |
long-eared bat | any of various Old or New World bats having very long ears |
long-horned beetle longicorn longicorn beetle | long-bodied beetle having very long antennae |
long-horned grasshopper tettigoniid | grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male |
long-tailed porcupine Trichys lipura | porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail |
longtail weasel long-tailed weasel Mustela frenata | the common American weasel distinguished by large size and black-tipped tail |
albacore long-fin tunny Thunnus alalunga | large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna, reaches pounds and has long pectoral fins, found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters |
bellarmine longbeard long-beard greybeard | a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck, decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (th century) |
bolster long pillow | a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows |
ditch spade long-handled spade | a spade with a long handle for digging narrow ditches |
jointer jointer plane jointing plane long plane | a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together |
long iron | an iron with a long shaft and a steep face, for hitting long low shots |
long johns | warm underwear with long legs |
long sleeve | a sleeve extending from shoulder to wrist |
long tom | a long swivel cannon formerly used by the navy |
long trousers long pants | trousers reaching to the foot |
long underwear union suit | an undergarment with shirt and drawers in one piece |
vaulting horse long horse buck | a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated, used lengthwise for vaulting |
long-sufferance long-suffering | patient endurance of pain or unhappiness |
forte strong suit long suit metier specialty speciality strong point strength | an asset of special worth or utility, cooking is his forte |
long bone os longum | in limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow |
long saphenous vein great saphenous vein | the longest vein in the body, runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein |
long-term memory LTM | your general store of remembered information |
long distance long-distance call trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
f adieu adios arrivederci auf wiedersehen au revoir bye bye-bye cheerio good-by goodby good-bye goodbye good day sayonara so long | a farewell remark, they said their good-byes |
Tai Long Shan | a branch of the Tai languages |
prolixity prolixness windiness long-windedness wordiness | boring verbosity |
long jump broad jump | a competition that involves jumping as far as possible from a running start |
soft-shell clam steamer steamer clam long-neck clam | a clam that is usually steamed in the shell |
long suit | in a hand, the suit having the most cards |
Long Beach | a city in southern California located on . miles of Pacific beachfront, was a resort until oil was discovered in |
Long Island | an island in southeastern New York, Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end |
long chain longhain molecule | (chemistry) a relatively long chain of atoms in a molecule |
Long Island Sound | a sound between Long Island and Connecticut |
long shot | a contestant that is unlikely to win |
marathoner marathon runner road runner long-distance runner | someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) |
long wave | a radio wave with a wavelength longer than a kilometer (a frequency below kilohertz) |
long-head coneflower prairie coneflower Ratibida columnifera | plant similar to the Mexican hat coneflower, from British Columbia to New Mexico |
long-spurred violet Viola rostrata | violet of eastern North America having lilac-purple flowers with a long slender spur |
asparagus bean yard-long bean Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis Vigna sesquipedalis | South American bean having very long succulent pods |
Spanish moss old man's beard black moss long moss Tillandsia usneoides | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots, southeastern United States and West Indies to South America |