12-letter words containing l, a, r, y, n
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- laryngophone — A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
- laryngophony — the sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope placed on the throat directly over the larynx
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- launch party — a party that celebrates the launch of a new magazine, product, etc
- laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
- laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
- laundry room — utility room
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- learnability — (uncountable) the condition of being learnable.
- lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
- liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- lognormality — the condition of having a natural logarithm with normal distribution
- long gallery — a large gallery, found especially in the uppermost stories of Elizabethan and Jacobean manor houses, used as a family room and as a promenade.
- longyearbyen — a village on Spitsbergen island, administrative centre of the Svalbard archipelago: coal-mining
- lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- malnormality — (mathematics, group theory) The property of a subgroup H of a group G where, for any x in G but not in H, H and Hx intersect in the identity element.
- managerially — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- meanderingly — In a meandering or winding manner.
- meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
- meridionally — In a meridional manner.
- microanalyst — One who carries out microanalysis.
- microtonally — In a microtonal manner.
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
- monkey trial — John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
- moralizingly — In a moralizing fashion.
- myoneuralgia — myalgia.
- nanocrystals — Plural form of nanocrystal.
- narcotically — In a narcotic manner.
- nasolacrymal — relating to the tear duct
- neoliberally — In a neoliberal manner.
- neurotically — of, relating to, or characteristic of neurosis.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- nocturnality — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- non-literary — pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
- non-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- nonformulary — Not formulary.
- nonlinearity — Mathematics. the quality of a function that expresses a relationship that is not one of direct proportion.
- nonliterally — In a manner that is not literal.
- nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.