12-letter words containing e, y, r, a
- lay preacher — a preacher who is not a member of the clergy
- lay sth bare — If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them.
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- learnability — (uncountable) the condition of being learnable.
- legal memory — a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.
- 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.
- levorotatory — turning to the left, as the rotation to the left of the plane of polarization of light in certain crystals and compounds. Symbol: l-.
- 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.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- long gallery — a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macroeconomy — A large-scale economic system.
- magnetometry — (physics) The measurement of magnetic fields (strength and direction etc).
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- make history — do sth of great significance
- managerially — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- mashrebeeyah — meshrebeeyeh.
- mashrebeeyeh — (in Islamic countries) an oriel screened by latticework.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.
- master alloy — an alloy rich in certain elements, used in small quantities as an additive to melts of alloyed metal.
- may-december — of or designating a marriage or romantic relationship between a young person and a person who is considerably older
- 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.
- medley relay — Track. a relay race in which individual members of a team usually run an unequal portion of the total distance. Compare distance medley, sprint medley.
- 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.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- memory smash — (jargon) A Xerox PARC term for writing to the location addressed by a dangling pointer.
- memory trace — engram.
- mercuriality — Mercurial behaviour.
- mercury mass — blue mass (def 1).
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- meristically — in a meristic manner
- merry-andrew — a clown; buffoon.
- merry-making — Merry-making is the activities of people who are enjoying themselves together in a lively way, for example by eating, drinking, or dancing.
- mesmerically — In a mesmeric manner; by, or as if by, hypnotism.
- meta-crystal — (language) A language for transformations of Crystal programs. Implemented in T.
- meteorically — of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.