12-letter words containing l, a, r, u, m
- eau minerale — mineral water (def 1).
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- euroterminal — a railway terminus from which trans-European trains operate
- extramurally — In an extramural manner.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- feature film — full-length movie
- fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- formula milk — An artificial substitute for breast milk intended for feeding infants. It can come in powdered form to be mixed with water or in instant liquid form.
- formula unit — (of an ionic compound that does not form molecules, as most salts) the chemical formula with the least number of elements out of the set of empirical formulas having the same proportion of ions as elements: NaCl is the formula unit for the ionic compound sodium chloride.
- formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
- formularizer — One who formularizes.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- giant fulmar — either of two large white or brownish petrels of the genus Macronectes, of the Antarctic Ocean and adjacent seas.
- glamour girl — a girl or woman whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glenohumeral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the glenoid fossa and the humerus.
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- half measure — If someone refers to policies or actions as half measures, they are critical of them because they think that they are not forceful enough and are therefore of little value.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- illuminators — Plural form of illuminator.
- illuminatory — Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- imparticular — (proscribed) in particular.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- inhalatorium — a room or building in which vapours are breathed in
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- intraluminal — Within a lumen.
- intramurally — In an intramural manner.
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
- kuala lumpur — a constitutional monarchy in SE Asia: a federation, comprising the former British territories of Malaya, Sabah, and Sarawak: member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 126,310 sq. mi. (327,143 sq. km). Capital: Kuala Lumpur.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.