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12-letter words containing a, s, l, o

  • kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
  • keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
  • kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
  • kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
  • knowableness — the quality of being knowable
  • labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • laboratories — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
  • labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
  • labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
  • labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
  • lady's-smock — a N temperate plant, Cardamine pratensis, with white or rose-pink flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
  • lake station — a town in NW Indiana.
  • lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
  • lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
  • laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
  • lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
  • landholdings — Plural form of landholding.
  • landlordless — Without a landlord.
  • lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
  • langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
  • languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
  • lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
  • laparoscopic — a flexible fiberoptic instrument, passed through a small incision in the abdominal wall and equipped with biopsy forceps, an obturator, scissors or the like, with which to examine the abdominal cavity or perform minor surgery.
  • laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
  • lapidicolous — living under stones
  • lark sparrow — a North American sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, having a distinctive brown-and-white facial pattern.
  • laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
  • laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
  • laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
  • lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
  • laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
  • last but one — next to last
  • last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • latin school — a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.
  • latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
  • law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
  • lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
  • lay hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • lay siege to — attack
  • lay store by — to value or reckon as important
  • leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
  • lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
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