12-letter words containing l, a, u, n, d, r
- glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
- gluten bread — bread made from gluten flour.
- grand coulee — a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 km) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.
- ground alert — the state of waiting for orders in or near combat airplanes ready to take to the air at once.
- ground cable — a heavy chain for securing permanent floating moorings, as a number of mooring buoys.
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground glass — Optics. glass that has had its polished surface removed by fine grinding and that is used to diffuse light.
- ground plane — (in perspective drawing) the theoretical horizontal plane receding from the picture plane to the horizon, beginning at the level of the base line.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- hand-launder — hand-wash.
- hardy annual — a plant that can withstand freezing temperatures and which completes its life cycle within a year
- harlequinade — a pantomime, farce, or similar play in which Harlequin plays the principal part.
- industrially — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- 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.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- linux loader — (operating system) (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- modularizing — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- multinodular — of, relating to, or characterized by nodules.
- natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
- non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- nonregulated — Alternative spelling of non-regulated.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- outgeneraled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- quadrangular — having four angles and four sides; having the shape of a quadrangle.
- quadriennial — quadrennial.
- quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
- quadrinomial — consisting of four terms.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- queenslander — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.