| 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 |