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12-letter words containing l, e, r, o

  • japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
  • jelenia gora — a city in SW Poland, a historic mining center.
  • jeopardously — with risk or peril
  • jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
  • jodrell bank — site of a radio astronomy observatory (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) in NE Cheshire, England, that operates a 250-foot (76-meter) radio telescope.
  • john gilmore — (person)   A noted Unix hacker who cofounded Usenet's anarchic alt.* newsgroup hierarchy with Brian Reid. He also worked on GDB. E-mail: John Gilmore <[email protected]>.
  • joliot-curie — Irène [ee-ren] /iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), (Irène Curie) 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
  • jolly jumper — any light sail set above a skysail; flying kite.
  • junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
  • keratohyalin — (biology) A protein structure found in granules in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, which may be involved in keratinization, and in Hassall corpuscles in the thymus.
  • keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
  • killer micro — [Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsizers. Used especially of RISC architectures. The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
  • kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
  • kindred soul — like-minded person
  • kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
  • kluge around — (jargon)   To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
  • kolyma range — a mountain range in NE Russia, in NE Siberia, extending about 1100 km (700 miles) between the Kolyma River and the Sea of Okhotsk. Highest peak: 1862 m (6109 ft)
  • kosher-style — (of a cuisine, restaurant, etc.) featuring traditional Jewish dishes, but not adhering to the dietary laws: kosher-style cooking.
  • kremlinology — the study of the government of the former Soviet Union, especially the study of those factors governing its foreign affairs.
  • la mano nera — Black Hand (def 1).
  • labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
  • laboratories — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
  • labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
  • labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
  • lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
  • ladder logic — (programming)   Source code formatted in two columns with conditions on the left that lead to outputs on the right: if (c1) s1 else if (c2) s2 else if (c3) s3 ... (2007-03-15)
  • ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
  • lahore party — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
  • lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
  • lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
  • lamella roof — a vaulted roof composed of lamellae.
  • lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
  • lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
  • landlordless — Without a landlord.
  • lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
  • laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
  • laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
  • laparotomize — to perform a laparotomy on.
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
  • laryngophone — A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
  • 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.
  • laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
  • late bloomer — a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop: A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.
  • laterization — the weathering process by which rock is changed to laterite.
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
  • lay store by — to value or reckon as important
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