Lighter-Than-Air is a 16 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 1144 anagrams from letters in lighter-than-air (--aaeghhiilnrrtt).
First recorded in 1900-05
This defect was overcome by the use of lighter-than-air gas.
"The Wright brothers invented the lighter-than-air ship early in the twentieth century," he said.
Dominick, however, wished more than I did to see his lighter-than-air craft in all its glory.
At that point came the true division between heavier-than-air and lighter-than-air machines.
In the race for actual accomplishment the balloonists, the advocates of lighter-than-air machines, took the lead at first.
Balloons, the most elementary form of lighter-than-air air-craft, unprovided with any means of propulsion or steering.
His progress had been theirs in the new science of lighter-than-air engineering.
It now seems to have opened a new era in lighter-than-air navigation.
Air-ships, lighter-than-air craft provided with means of propulsion and steering.
Not until the eighteenth century did the experimenters with lighter-than-air devices show any practical results.
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