10-letter words containing a, n, e, r, l
- lanosterol — a sterol, C 30 H 50 O, formed from squalene epoxide, that is a precursor in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and is a component of lanolin.
- lanternfly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
- lanterning — Present participle of lantern.
- lanternist — someone who operates a magic lantern
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- large cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- laryngeals — Plural form of laryngeal.
- latin rite — Also called Roman liturgy, Roman rite. the forms of worship and liturgy expressed in Liturgical Latin in the Roman Catholic Church in the West.
- launderers — Plural form of launderer.
- laundering — Present participle of launder.
- laundrette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- laundrymen — Plural form of laundryman.
- laureation — The act of crowning with laurel; the act of conferring an academic degree, or honorary title.
- laurentian — of or relating to the St. Lawrence River.
- laurentius — Saint, Lawrence, Saint.
- law centre — an office, usually staffed by professional volunteers, at which free legal advice and information are provided to the general public
- law french — Anglo-French as used in legal proceedings and lawbooks in England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th century, some terms of which are still in use.
- lawn mower — a hand-operated or motor-driven machine for cutting the grass of a lawn.
- lawnmowers — Plural form of lawnmower.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- lawrentian — of, relating to, or characteristic of D. H. Lawrence, his works, or his ideas.
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leaf miner — any of the larvae of any of numerous insects, as moths of the family Gracilariidae, that live in and feed on the parenchyma of leaves.
- leathering — Present participle of leather.
- leatherman — A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and wear, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
- lebensraum — additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade.
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
- leeuwarden — a province in the N Netherlands. 1431 sq. mi. (3705 sq. km). Capital: Leeuwarden.
- left brain — the left hemisphere of the human brain, which is believed to control linear and analytical thinking, decision-making, and language
- lefthander — Alternative spelling of left-hander.
- legharness — armor for the leg, sometimes including that for the foot.
- legionaire — Misspelling of legionnaire.
- lemongrass — A fragrant tropical grass that yields an oil that smells lemon. It is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumery and medicine.
- lenticular — of or relating to a lens.
- lentiviral — Of or pertaining to a lentivirus.
- leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
- letter man — a person who has earned a letter in an interscholastic or intercollegiate activity, especially a sport.
- leveraging — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- leviration — Levirate marriage.
- leyden jar — a device for storing electric charge, consisting essentially of a glass jar lined inside and outside, for about two-thirds of its height, with tinfoil.
- liberating — That serves to liberate, especially to free the mind to accept new ideas.
- liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- lie around — sb: lounge idly
- liebermann — Max [mahks] /mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1847–1935, German painter and etcher.
- lighterman — a person who navigates a lighter.
- line eater — (messaging) 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the Usenet software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text. The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab. This bug was quickly personified as a mythical creature called the "line eater", and postings often included a dummy line of "line eater food". Ironically, line eater "food" not beginning with a space or tab wasn't actually eaten, since the bug was avoided; but if there *was* a space or tab before it, then the line eater would eat the food *and* the beginning of the text it was supposed to be protecting. The practice of "sacrificing to the line eater" continued for some time after the bug had been nailed to the wall, and is still humorously referred to. The bug itself is still (in mid-1991) occasionally reported to be lurking in some mail-to-netnews gateways. 2. NSA line eater.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- linearized — Simple past tense and past participle of linearize.
- linebacker — a player on defense who takes a position close behind the linemen.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.