11-letter words containing e, o, l, t, r
- last resort — desperate recourse
- latent root — characteristic root (def 2).
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- latin lover — seductive Latin American man
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- 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.
- lecythiform — (biology, mycology) shaped like a bowling pin, a flask, or a bottle.
- left-footer — (esp in Ireland and Scotland) a Roman Catholic
- legationary — Relating to a legation.
- legislators — Plural form of legislator.
- legitimator — a person who makes something legitimate
- lepidoptera — the order comprising the lepidopterous insects.
- lepidoptery — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leptocercal — having a long thin tail
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- let through — to allow to pass (through)
- lethiferous — lethal.
- letter bomb — an envelope containing an explosive device designed to detonate when the envelope is opened by the recipient.
- letter drop — (in a door or partition) a slot through which letters can be pushed.
- letterboxed — Simple past tense and past participle of letterbox.
- letterboxes — Plural form of letterbox.
- letterforms — Plural form of letterform.
- leucocratic — (of a rock) composed mainly of light-colored minerals.
- leukotriene — a lipid, C 20 H 30 O 3 , produced by white blood cells in an immune response to antigens, that contributes to allergic asthma and inflammatory reactions.
- light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
- light opera — operetta.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- limit order — an order to buy or sell a specified amount of a security at a specific price.
- line editor — (tool, text) An early kind of text editor suited to use on a teletype. The user enters editing commands which apply to the current line or some given range of lines. These include moving forward and backward through the buffer, inserting and deleting lines, substituting a string for a pattern match, and printing lines. Visual feedback is restricted to explicitly requesting the display of one or more lines, in contrast to a screen editor.
- line vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- liner notes — Usually, liner notes. explanatory or interpretative notes about an audio album, as a record, CD, etc., printed on the cover or case or otherwise provided.
- link editor — linker
- linzertorte — a sweet pastry, often made with powdered nuts, having a filling of red jam and a lattice crust.
- lion-hunter — a person who hunts lions, esp for sport
- lionhearted — exceptionally courageous or brave.
- lipoprotein — any of the class of proteins that contain a lipid combined with a simple protein.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- listeriosis — a disease of wild and domestic mammals, birds, and occasionally of humans, caused by a bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes, and characterized by lack of control of movement, paralysis, fever, and monocytosis.
- lithometeor — a mass of dry particles suspended in the atmosphere, as dust or haze.
- lithosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- litter lout — a person who tends to drop refuse in public places
- little rock — state in S central United States. 53,103 sq. mi. (137,537 sq. km). Capital: Little Rock. Abbreviation: AR (for use with zip code), Ark.