| agelong | (adjective) lasting through all time | - |
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| along | (adverb) in accompaniment or as a companion | - |
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| (adverb) with a forward motion | Synonyms: on |
| (adverb) in addition (usually followed by `with') | - |
| (adverb) to a more advanced state | - |
| (adverb) in line with a length or direction (often followed by `by' or `beside') | - |
| alongside | (adverb) side by side | Synonyms: aboard |
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| belong | (verb) be owned by; be in the possession of | - |
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| (verb) be rightly classified in a class or category | - |
| (verb) be suitable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be in the right place or situation | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) be a part or adjunct | Synonyms: belong to |
| (verb) be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place) | - |
| belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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| belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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| daylong | (adjective) lasting through an entire day | - |
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| (adverb) during the entire day | Synonyms: all day long |
| elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
| elongated | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongate |
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| (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: extended, lengthened, prolonged |
| elongation | (noun) the act of lengthening something | - |
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| (noun) an addition to the length of something | Synonyms: extension |
| (noun) the quality of being elongated | - |
| furlong | (noun) a unit of length equal to 220 yards | - |
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| headlong | (adjective) with the head foremost | Synonyms: headfirst |
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| (adjective) excessively quick | Synonyms: hasty |
| (adverb) with the head before the body | Synonyms: headfirst |
| (adverb) in a hasty and foolhardy manner | Synonyms: rashly |
| (adverb) at breakneck speed | Synonyms: precipitately |
| hourlong | (adjective) lasting for an hour | - |
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| lifelong | (adjective) continuing through life | Synonyms: womb-to-tomb |
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| livelong | (adjective) (of time) constituting the full extent or duration | - |
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| (noun) perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers | Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium |
| long | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious |
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| (adjective) primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration | - |
| (adjective) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices | - |
| (adjective) having or being more than normal or necessary | - |
| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient |
| (adjective) of relatively great height | - |
| (adjective) involving substantial risk | - |
| (adverb) for an extended time or at a distant time | - |
| (adverb) for an extended distance | - |
| (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, yearn |
| longan | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longanberry, lungen, Nephelium longana |
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| longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, lungen, Nephelium longana |
| longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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| longanimous | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: forbearing |
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| longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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| longboat | (noun) the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel | - |
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| longbow | (noun) a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England | - |
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| longbowman | (noun) a medieval English archer who used a longbow | - |
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| longer | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: thirster, yearner |
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| (adverb) for more time | - |
| longest | (adverb) for the most time | - |
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| longevity | (noun) duration of service | Synonyms: length of service |
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| (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: seniority |
| longhand | (adjective) having words written out in full by hand | - |
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| (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand |
| longhorn | (noun) long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States | Synonyms: Texas longhorn |
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| longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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| longing | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, yearning |
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| longingly | (adverb) in a yearning manner | Synonyms: yearningly |
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| longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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| longitude | (noun) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich | - |
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| longitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to lines of longitude | - |
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| (adjective) running lengthwise | - |
| (adjective) over an extended time | - |
| longitudinally | (adverb) with respect to longitude | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longways, longwise |
| (adverb) across time | - |
| longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| longness | (noun) the property of being of long spatial extent | - |
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| (noun) duration as an extension | - |
| longroot | (noun) deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States | Synonyms: Arenaria caroliniana, pine-barren sandwort |
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| longship | (noun) a type of ship invented and used by the Vikings for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. | - |
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| longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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| longshot | (noun) a photograph taken from a distance | - |
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| longsighted | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, farseeing, keen-sighted |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, prospicient |
| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| longstanding | (adjective) having existed for a long time | Synonyms: long-standing |
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| longtime | (adjective) having existed or persisted or continued in a particular role or state for a long time | Synonyms: long-time |
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| longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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| longways | (noun) country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other | Synonyms: longways dance |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longwise |
| longwise | (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longways |
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| longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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| longyi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: lungi, lungyi |
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| monthlong | (adjective) last through a month | - |
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| nightlong | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, overnight |
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| oblong | (adjective) deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction | - |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides | - |
| (noun) a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation | - |
| oblongness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: rectangularity |
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| oolong | (noun) Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried | - |
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| prolong | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, protract |
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| (verb) lengthen or extend in duration or space | Synonyms: keep up, sustain |
| prolongation | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: lengthening, perpetuation, protraction |
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| (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: extension, lengthiness |
| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: continuation, lengthiness, protraction |
| prolonge | (noun) a rope fitted with a hook and used for towing a gun carriage | - |
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| prolonged | (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: elongated, extended, lengthened |
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| (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protracted |
| sidelong | (adjective) inclining or directed to one side | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
| (adjective) situated at or extending to the side | Synonyms: lateral |
| (adverb) to, toward or at one side | Synonyms: obliquely, sideways |
| (adverb) with the side toward someone or something | - |
| (adverb) on the side | - |
| singalong | (noun) informal group singing of popular songs | Synonyms: singsong |
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| tagalong | (noun) someone who persistently (and annoyingly) follows along | Synonyms: hanger-on |
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| weeklong | (adjective) lasting through a week | Synonyms: seven-day |
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| yearlong | (adjective) lasting through a year | - |
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