12-letter words containing a, u, r, t, i
- intermundane — existing in the space between worlds or heavenly bodies: intermundane space.
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.
- internuptial — Of, or related to intermarriage.
- interpleural — situated between the pleurae
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intertextual — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- intralingual — within a given language; of or pertaining to a single language.
- intraluminal — Within a lumen.
- intramundane — existing or occurring within the material world.
- intramurally — In an intramural manner.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- intraosseous — (medicine) within a bone.
- intrapreneur — an employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
- intrauterine — located or occurring within the uterus.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- iron curtain — (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irrebuttable — incapable of being rebutted or refuted.
- irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
- isosthenuria — the inability of the kidneys to dilute or concentrate urine
- jaunting car — a light, two-wheeled, one-horse cart, once common in Ireland, having two seats set back to back, with a perch in front for the driver.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- joint author — a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- juristic act — a proceeding designed to have a legal effect
- juristically — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
- ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
- khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latin church — the Roman Catholic Church.
- 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.
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
- legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- 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.
- lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant