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12-letter words containing a, e, l, u, r

  • last quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
  • latex rubber — rubber used to make many products such as gloves, condoms, etc, and which is made from latex, a whitish milky fluid containing protein, starch, alkaloids, etc, that is produced by many plants
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
  • latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
  • laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
  • launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • lauraldehyde — lauric aldehyde.
  • laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • lecture hall — conference room
  • legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
  • lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
  • lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
  • leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
  • leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
  • lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
  • levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
  • levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
  • lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
  • ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
  • lingua geral — a lingua franca based on Tupi and spoken in the Amazon basin of South America.
  • linux loader — (operating system)   (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
  • litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
  • litterateurs — Plural form of litterateur.
  • liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
  • long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
  • louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
  • lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
  • macroculture — The dominant culture in a society, its overculture.
  • macronuclear — Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
  • macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
  • major league — The major leagues are groups of professional sports teams that compete against each other, especially in American baseball.
  • major-league — Sports. of, relating to, or characteristic of the major leagues.
  • majorleaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
  • make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
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