12-letter words containing l, a, o, u
- dual-purpose — serving two functions.
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- duodecastyle — dodecastyle.
- duodecennial — relating to twelve years
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- earth colour — any of various brown pigments composed chiefly of iron oxides
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- edulcorating — Present participle of edulcorate.
- edulcoration — (rare) A sweetening.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- ejaculations — Plural form of ejaculation.
- elocutionary — Of or pertaining to elocution or to public speaking; rhetorical.
- elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
- elucubration — the practice of elucubrating
- emasculation — The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equalisation — Alternative spelling of equalization.
- equalization — The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equinoctials — Plural form of equinoctial.
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
- eulogistical — Alternative form of eulogistic.
- euphonically — In a euphonic manner.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exalbuminous — (of a seed embryo) having no albumen
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- exonucleases — Plural form of exonuclease.
- exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
- expostulated — Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.
- expostulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expostulate.
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- extraneously — In an extraneous manner.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- fall foul of — to come into conflict with
- fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.