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17-letter words containing l, a, o, u

  • letters of marque — a former government document authorizing an individual to make reprisals on the subjects of an enemy nation, specif. to arm a ship and capture enemy merchant ships and cargo
  • liability account — A liability account is an account recording a company's liabilities.
  • liberal education — an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
  • librocubicularist — (rare) A person who reads in bed.
  • limousine liberal — a wealthy left-wing person
  • liquid petrolatum — mineral oil.
  • liquid propellant — a rocket propellant in liquid form.
  • literary executor — a person entrusted with the publishable works and other papers of a deceased author.
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • loco supra citato — l.s.c.
  • loggerhead turtle — a sea turtle, Caretta caretta, having a large head: now greatly reduced in number.
  • long island sound — an arm of the Atlantic between Connecticut and Long Island. 90 miles (145 km) long.
  • longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
  • louisiana tanager — western tanager.
  • low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
  • luminous efficacy — the quotient of the luminous flux of a radiation and its corresponding radiant flux
  • luminous exitance — the ability of a surface to emit light expressed as the luminous flux per unit area at a specified point on the surface
  • lumpenproletariat — the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals and characterized by a lack of class identification and solidarity.
  • macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • magellanic clouds — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • manitoulin island — an island in N Lake Huron belonging to Canada. 80 miles (130 km) long.
  • many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
  • maxwell equations — equations developed by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–79) upon which classical electromagnetic theory is based
  • medical procedure — A medical procedure is a medical treatment or operation.
  • medicochirurgical — pertaining to medicine and surgery.
  • medulla oblongata — the lowest or hindmost part of the brain, continuous with the spinal cord.
  • mensural notation — a system of musical notation of the 13th to the late 16th centuries, marked by the use of note symbols such as the longa and brevis, the absence of bar lines and ties, and the equivalence in value of one note to either two or three of the next smaller degree.
  • messier catalogue — a catalogue of 103 nonstellar objects, such as nebulae and galaxies, prepared in 1781–86. An object is referred to by its number in this catalogue, for example the Andromeda Galaxy is referred to as M31
  • metallofullerenes — Plural form of metallofullerene.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
  • micromanipulation — the technique of performing mechanical operations under high magnification through the use of specialized tools.
  • micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
  • minimal automaton — (theory)   An automaton possessing with redundant states.
  • miscellaneousness — Quality of being miscellaneous.
  • modeling language — modelling language
  • modular sb-prolog — Modular Prolog
  • modulo arithmetic — modular arithmetic
  • molecular biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
  • molecular formula — a chemical formula that indicates the kinds of atoms and the number of each kind in a molecule of a compound.
  • molecular orbital — Physics, Chemistry. a wave function describing the state of a single electron in an atom (atomic orbital) or in a molecule (molecular orbital) the electron in that state.
  • monarch butterfly — a large, deep-orange butterfly, Danaus plexippus, having black and white markings, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of milkweed.
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • monumentalization — to establish an enduring memorial or record of.
  • more than usually — You use more than usually to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
  • mounted policeman — policemen who patrol on horseback
  • multi-directional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multi-millionaire — a person who possesses a fortune that amounts to many millions of dollars, francs, etc.
  • multi-nationalism — a large corporation with operations and subsidiaries in several countries.
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