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13-letter words containing a, l, i, t, r

  • labyrinthitis — inflammation of the inner ear, or labyrinth, characterized by dizziness, nausea, and visual disturbances.
  • lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
  • lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • laevorotation — a rotation to the left
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake victoria — the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
  • landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
  • landing strip — airstrip.
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • laparoscopist — One who carries out laparoscopy.
  • laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
  • laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
  • lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
  • lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
  • latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • latin quarter — the quarter of Paris on the south side of the Seine, especially frequented for centuries by students, writers, and artists.
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
  • least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
  • legionary ant — army ant
  • legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • liberal elite — the group of people in a society who are considered as having a high level of education and liberal ideas
  • liberal party — a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.
  • liberationism — the principles of liberationists
  • liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • liberty party — the first antislavery political party, organized in 1839 and merged with the Free Soil party in 1848.
  • library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
  • library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
  • library table — a large pedestal writing table or desk.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • light therapy — therapeutic exposure to full-spectrum artificial light that simulates sunlight, used to treat various conditions, as seasonal affective disorder.
  • light-hearted — carefree; cheerful; merry: a lighthearted laugh.
  • like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
  • line integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given curve approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the length of the arcs in the partition times the value of the function at some point on each arc.
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