10-letter words containing l, a, s, t
- jesuitical — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- jollyboats — Plural form of jollyboat.
- journalist — a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism.
- juristical — Alternative form of juristic.
- kabalistic — cabalistic.
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- katholikos — catholicos.
- killstreak — (video games) An unbroken streak (continuous series) of kills.
- klinotaxis — a wavering side-to-side motion of the head occurring as an organism moves forward in response to a source of stimulation, caused by the alternating reaction of sensory receptors on either side of the body.
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- labyrinths — Plural form of labyrinth.
- lac insect — a scale insect, Laccifer lacca, of southeast Asia, the female of which secretes lac, a substance used in the preparation of shellac, wax, etc.
- laccoliths — Plural form of laccolith.
- lackluster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lacklustre — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lactescent — becoming or being milky.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- lactosuria — the presence of lactose in the urine
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lambasting — to beat or whip severely.
- lamestream — noting or relating to traditional print and broadcast media, when regarded as lacking the fairness, creativity, etc., of independent online news sources.
- lamingtons — Plural form of lamington.
- lammastide — the season of Lammas.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lance rest — a support for a couched lance, fixed to the breastplate of a suit of armor.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- landaulets — Plural form of landaulet.
- langostino — langoustine.
- langoustes — Plural form of langouste.
- lanosterol — a sterol, C 30 H 50 O, formed from squalene epoxide, that is a precursor in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and is a component of lanolin.
- lansquenet — landsknecht.
- lanternist — someone who operates a magic lantern
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laptev sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean N of the Russian Federation in Asia, between Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- laryngitis — inflammation of the larynx, often with accompanying sore throat, hoarseness or loss of voice, and dry cough.
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- last rites — anointing of the sick.
- last sleep — death
- last straw — the last of a succession of irritations, incidents, remarks, etc., that leads to a loss of patience, a disaster, etc.: He has been late before, but this is the last straw.
- last thing — as the final action, esp before retiring to bed at night
- last-ditch — done finally in desperation to avoid defeat, failure, disaster, etc.: a last-ditch attempt to avert war.
- late hours — rising and going to bed later than is usual
- late riser — somebody who tends to wake up and get out of bed at a later time than considered normal