12-letter words containing a, n, u, l, r, s
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- granulations — Plural form of granulation.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- granulocytes — Plural form of granulocyte.
- gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- gratulations — a feeling of joy.
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- gutturalness — The quality of being guttural.
- gutturonasal — articulated in the back of the mouth and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as the sound represented by (ng) in (ring).
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- holothurians — Plural form of holothurian.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illustrating — Present participle of illustrate.
- illustration — something that illustrates, as a picture in a book or magazine.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- inclusionary — (of zoning, housing programs, etc.) stipulating that a certain percentage of new housing will be priced within the reach of middle-income buyers or renters.
- industrially — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insurability — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- jus naturale — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
- kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
- 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.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- 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.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- 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.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.