Long
//lɒŋ//
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The word "long" can be used as adjective, adjective, noun, adverb, verb, proper noun and adverb.
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African long-tailed shrike Attenborough's long-beaked echidna Cadena's long-tongued bat Land of the Long White Cloud Lombard Long Ashton Long Beach Long Branch Long Buckby Long Clawson Long Compton Long County Long Crendon Long Drax Long Duckmanton Long Eaton Long Flat Long Gully Long Hill Long Island Long Itchington Long Jetty Long Key Long Man Long Marston Long Marton Long Melford Long Prairie Long Preston Long River Long Rock Long Stratton Long Street Long Sutton Long Wittenham Long-a-Coming Longbone Longfellow Longford Longparish Longport Longrock Longstaff Longstanton Longview Longville Major's long-fingered bat Major's long-tailed tenrec Mesoamerican Long Count calendar Night of the Long Knives Pallas's long-tongued bat Patton's long-tongued bat Pearson's long-clawed shrew Sir David's long-beaked echidna Stanton Long a creaking door hangs long on its hinges a little goes a long way a little of something goes a long way a long time coming a long time in coming a week is a long time in politics age-long armlong as broad as long as long as as the day is long before long belong block-long blocklong by a long chalk by a long shot by a long way by long chalks centuries-long come a long way daddy longlegs draw a long bow draw the long bow edgelong erelong extralong face as long as a fiddle feetlong footlong for as long as one can remember for long for so long a time for the long haul forlong go a long way go back a long way go into the long grass go long half-long he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon hit into the long grass how long how long is a piece of string in the long run in the long term inchlong it's a long road that has no turning kick into the long grass linger little pitchers have long ears live long and prosper livelong long Barnaby long COVID long QT syndrome long Second World War long Tom long a long ago long and short stitch long arm long arm of the law long arm statute long arms long as one's arm long ball long ballot long beer long bit long black long block long bone long bullets long case long ciliary nerve long clothes long coats long con long corner long division long dozen long drink long drink of water long drop long drum long e long egg long eighteenth century long ess long exact sequence long face long figure long file name long filename long finger long firm long for long game long ghost long grasser long gray line long green long gross long gun long hair long hair don't care long hair sedge long handle long haul long home long hop long hour long house long hundred long i long in coming long in the tooth long int long integer long john long johns long jump long lap penalty long leet long legs long lens long line long list long live long lost long march through the institutions long measure long memory long meter long mode long night moon long nineteenth century long o long odds long off long on long oo long paddock long passive long peace long pepper long pig long polling long pork long posterior ciliary artery long pot long price long profile long purples long purse long ranger long rice long rifle long robe long room long row to hoe long run long run for a short slide long s long scale long screwdriver long sell long service leave long shot long sight long since long six long snap long snapper long spine board long stop long story long story short long streak of misery long suit long sweetening long tail long take long term long thousand long throw long time long title long ton long track long trousers long u long underwear long vac long vacation long vax long vehicle long view long vowel long wave long way around long weekend long whist long white radish long-acting long-acuminate long-ago long-arm statute long-armed squid long-awaited long-barrelled long-beaked bald rush long-billed long-bonneted long-burning long-chain long-coat long-cripple long-distance long-drawn long-drawn-out long-eared long-eared bat long-eared fox long-eared guinea pig long-eared owl long-established long-faced long-faced miner bee long-felt long-fingered frog long-focus lens long-footed potoroo long-form long-furred long-grain long-grasser long-haired long-haired dictionary long-haul long-haul COVID long-hauler long-hauling long-headed long-held long-horned beetle long-horned grasshopper long-house long-jawed spider long-john long-johns long-jumper long-lasting long-legged long-legged buzzard long-legged fly long-life long-line bra long-line brassiere long-lining long-lived long-living long-locked long-lost long-minded long-neck long-necked long-nose long-nosed potoroo long-pending long-period long-play long-player long-playing long-press long-range long-ranger long-ranging long-running long-sighted long-sleeved long-sleever long-slip long-snouted seahorse long-span long-spined bullhead long-spun long-spurred violet long-stop long-sufferance long-suffering long-tail Covid long-tail boat long-tailed long-tailed hawk long-tailed paradise whydah long-tailed planigale long-term long-term Covid long-term memory long-term potentiation long-termer long-termism long-termist long-time long-toed stint long-toed water beetle long-togs long-tongued long-tongued bat long-visaged long-vowel mark long-waisted long-welded long-winded longage longarm longbeak longbeard longboard longboat longboi longbow longcase longcat longclaw longcoat longcut longdog longear longfin longform longgrass longhair longhaired longhand longheaded longhorn longhorned longhouse longhunter longie longies longing longish longjaw longleaf longlimbed longline longlist longliver longly longminded longneck longnecked longness longnose longplay longrange longrifle longship longshoot longshot longsleeved longsome longspun longspur longstemmed longsuffering longsword longtail longterm longtime longwall longward longwave longwhiles longwing longwise longwool longword longy make a long arm medium long shot midlong night of long knives nonlong not long not long for not long for the world not long for this world old long syne old sins cast long shadows old sins have long shadows one should live so long over the long haul overlong pull the long bow punt into the long grass push into the long grass semi-long semilong short accounts make long friends short reckonings make long friends sidelong since long so long so long as stretch the long bow stretching the long bow superlong take a long walk off a short pier take a long walk on a short pier take long take the long view the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long the long and short the long way around the barn ultralong very-long-baseline interferometry very-long-chain waistlong yard-long bean you're a long time dead
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adjective appropriate aspire await baseline because belong big big measurement bonds boring boundary breve broad description desire dimension distance duration elongated far fielding great great length int integer land large length lengthy long long longitude measure measurement measurement dimension nickname note of pertain position province short silent e space stocks tall tedious tiring to vietnam vowel wide
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abundant abundant agelong agelong all night all-night aware bimestrial bimestrial chronic continuing continuing daylong daylong drawn-out durable eight day eight-day elongate elongated elongated endless eternal extendable extendable extended extendible far far hourlong hourlong interminable interminable lank lank lasting lat lengthened lengthened lengthy lifelong long acting long ass long dated long handled long lasting long life long range long snouted long standing long staple long wooled long-acting long-dated long-handled long-lasting long-life long-lived long-range long-run long-snouted long-standing long-staple long-term long-wool long-wooled longish longish longitudinal longitudinal longstanding mindful monthlong monthlong nightlong oblong oblong overnight perennial perennial pole-handled polysyllabic polysyllabic prolonged protracted protracted provident semipermanent semipermanent sesquipedalian seven day seven-day stretch stretch tall tall time consuming time-consuming unsound unsound weeklong womb to tomb womb-to-tomb yearlong yearlong
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