11-letter words containing a, t, r, o
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
- lay to rest — the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep: a good night's rest.
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- legationary — Relating to a legation.
- legislators — Plural form of legislator.
- legitimator — a person who makes something legitimate
- lepidoptera — the order comprising the lepidopterous insects.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leptocercal — having a long thin tail
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- leucocratic — (of a rock) composed mainly of light-colored minerals.
- librational — Of or pertaining to libration.
- light opera — operetta.
- lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lipoatrophy — (medicine) The loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
- lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
- load factor — the amount or weight of cargo, number of passengers, etc., that an aircraft, vehicle, or vessel can carry.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- locutionary — pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener.
- logarithmic — pertaining to a logarithm or logarithms.
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
- lone father — a father with no wife or partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- lone parent — a parent who is not married and does not have a partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- lotus sutra — a central scripture of Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizing that anyone can attain enlightenment
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
- lunar month — month (def 5).
- lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
- lunar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- luoravetlan — Chukotian.
- luxuriation — The act of enjoying or experiencing luxury.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- m-radiation — one of a series of lines (M-series) in the x-ray spectrum of an atom corresponding to radiation (M-radiation) caused by the transition of an electron to the M-shell.
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- macrobiotic — of or relating to macrobiotics or its dietary practices.
- macrodactyl — one of the group of wading birds, Macrodactyli
- macrodontia — the condition of having abnormally large teeth.
- macrogamete — (in heterogamous reproduction) the larger and usually female of a pair of conjugating gametes.
- macromutant — undergoing macromutation.