11-letter words containing i, s, r, a
- latirostral — (of a bird) having a broad beak
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- laurustinus — a southern European evergreen shrub, Viburnum tinus, of the honeysuckle family, having large clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
- lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
- leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
- leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
- leatherfish — a filefish.
- legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.
- legionaries — Plural form of legionary.
- legislators — Plural form of legislator.
- legislatrix — a woman who is a member of a legislature.
- legislature — 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.
- leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
- leopardskin — the skin of a leopard
- leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- lex scripta — written law; statute law.
- liberalised — Simple past tense and past participle of liberalise.
- liberalists — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- liberalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liberalize.
- liberalness — The property of being liberal.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
- linearities — Plural form of linearity.
- linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
- liposarcoma — (medicine) Any malignant tumour that originates in adipose tissue.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- literalness — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
- literaryism — habitual use of literary forms
- literatures — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
- lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
- littermates — Plural form of littermate.
- little sark — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel E of Guernsey, connected to Sark by a natural causeway.
- livebearers — Plural form of livebearer.
- liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
- lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumbricalis — lumbrical.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- macdesigner — A design CASE tool for the Mac from Excel Software, Inc.
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- machineries — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macrobiosis — long life.
- macrocosmic — Of or pertaining to the macrocosm (universe).