longing
- n prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
- v desire strongly or persistently
longitude
- n the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich
longleaf pine
- n large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree
longlegs
- n long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
longness
- n the property of being of long spatial extent
one gene causes shortness and the other causes longness - n duration as an extension