12-letter words containing a, c, e, l, u
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- immaculately — free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- incalculable — very numerous or great.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- inexcuseable — Alternative form of inexcusable.
- inexecutable — That cannot be executed or carried out.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- lacquer tree — any of several trees yielding a resin used as lacquer, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- ladder truck — hook and ladder.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lake lucerne — a lake in central Switzerland: fed and drained chiefly by the River Reuss. Area: 115 sq km (44 sq miles)
- lake success — a town on Long Island, in SE New York: temporary United Nations headquarters 1946–51.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- lascaux cave — a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- leaf lettuce — a type of lettuce having loosely clustered, often curled leaves that are sometimes tinged with red.
- league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
- lecture hall — conference room