12-letter words containing h, o, u, l
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
- limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
- litholatrous — of or relating to the worship of stones
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- lithophilous — (of animals and plants) inhabiting or growing in stony places
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- loop through — loop
- loud-mouthed — If you describe someone as loud-mouthed, you are critical of them because they talk a lot, especially in an unpleasant, offensive, or stupid way.
- loughborough — a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- loutrophoros — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a water jar, characterized by an elongated neck and flaring mouth, used to carry water for the marriage bath and set on the tomb of a person who had been unmarried.
- luncheonette — a small restaurant or lunchroom where light meals are served.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- methaqualone — a nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic substance, C 1 6 H 1 4 N 2 O, used to induce sleep: also widely used as an illicit drug.
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- middle youth — the period of life between about 30 and 50
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- monophyllous — consisting of one leaf, as a calyx.
- moth mullein — a weedy, European mullein, Verbascum blattaria, of the figwort family, having lance-shaped leaves and loose spikes of white or yellow flowers.
- motor launch — a small naval vessel that chases submarines, etc
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- neurohumoral — of or pertaining to a neurohumour
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.
- new plymouth — a seaport on W North Island, in New Zealand.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nitrophilous — (of plants) growing in soil well supplied with nitrogen
- no such luck — You can say 'No such luck' when you want to express your disappointment over something.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.