12-letter words containing a, r, i, l, y
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- learnability — (uncountable) the condition of being learnable.
- lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
- leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- liberty hall — a place or condition of complete liberty
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
- library book — a book owned by a library
- library card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- malnormality — (mathematics, group theory) The property of a subgroup H of a group G where, for any x in G but not in H, H and Hx intersect in the identity element.
- managerially — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- memorial day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
- mercuriality — Mercurial behaviour.
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- meristically — in a meristic manner
- mesmerically — In a mesmeric manner; by, or as if by, hypnotism.
- meteorically — of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- microcrystal — a microscopic crystal.
- microtonally — In a microtonal manner.
- military law — the body of laws relating to the government of the armed forces; rules and regulations for the conduct of military personnel.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- miracle play — a medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.
- miraculously — In a miraculous manner.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- molecularity — the number of molecules or atoms that participate in an elementary process.
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- moralizingly — In a moralizing fashion.
- multi-parity — of or relating to a multipara.
- multilayered — having two or more layers.
- myofibrillar — Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- narcotically — In a narcotic manner.
- neoliberally — In a neoliberal manner.
- neurotically — of, relating to, or characteristic of neurosis.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- nocturnality — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).