10-letter words containing l, a, c, t, o
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- lanceolate — shaped like the head of a lance.
- latch hook — a handheld tool similar to a latch needle, used for drawing loops of yarn through canvas or similar material to make rugs and the like.
- latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latecomers — Plural form of latecomer.
- latticinio — an opaque, white glass first produced in Venice during the Renaissance, often used in thread form to decorate clear glass pieces.
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- law courts — a body which adjudicates legal disputes and attempts to administer justice in accordance with the law
- lectionary — a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service.
- leucoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- lithoclast — an instrument used to break up bladder stones
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- local time — the time based on the meridian through a specific place, as a city, in contrast to that of the time zone within which the place is located; the time in a specific place as compared to that of another place to the east or west.
- localities — Plural form of locality.
- locational — a place of settlement, activity, or residence: This town is a good location for a young doctor.
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- logic gate — gate1 (def 16b).
- logicality — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- logistical — of or relating to logistics.
- long-coats — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- lord acton — Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron) 1834–1902, English historian.
- lorication — the act of covering with a protective coating
- lose caste — to lose social status or position
- lose track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- lost cause — a cause that has been defeated or whose defeat is inevitable.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- lubricator — a person or thing that lubricates.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lucubrator — One who lucubrates.
- lycra lout — an aggressive urban cyclist who disregards the rules of the road
- maculation — the act of spotting.
- malcontent — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- malolactic — Of or denoting bacterial fermentation that converts malic acid to lactic acid, especially as a secondary process used to reduce the acidity of some wines.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.
- matrifocal — of, relating to, or designating a family unit or structure headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods.
- matrilocal — of or relating to residence with the wife's family or tribe; uxorilocal: matrilocal customs.
- matrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- megalocyte — (physiology) A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anemia.
- melaconite — the massive variety of tenorite
- melanocyte — a cell producing and containing melanin.
- mesolectal — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- methanolic — Submersed or dissolved in, or obtained with the use of methanol.
- methodical — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- miarolitic — (of an igneous rock) having irregular cavities into which crystals protrude