12-letter words containing l, e, s
- alaska range — a mountain range in S central Alaska. Highest peak: Mount McKinley, 6194 m (20 320 ft)
- albert speer — Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- alberti bass — a reiterated broken-chord figure used as an accompaniment, especially in 18th-century rococo keyboard music.
- alexanderson — Ernst F. W [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1878–1975, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- alexandrines — Plural form of alexandrine.
- alexandrinus — the Greek uncial codex, dating from the early 5th century a.d., originally containing the complete text of the Greek Old and New Testaments.
- algesiometer — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- alhambresque — like the Alhambra, especially in richness of ornamentation
- alice's fern — Hartford fern.
- alieni juris — under the control of another, as a lunatic or infant.
- alkalescence — the process of developing alkaline qualities
- alkalescency — the tendency to develop alkaline qualities
- alkalimeters — Plural form of alkalimeter.
- all the best — You can say 'All the best' when you are saying goodbye to someone, or at the end of a letter.
- all the same — nevertheless; yet
- allegoristic — writing or using allegory; interpreting in an allegorical sense.
- allegrissimo — (music) A direction in musical notation indicating that the musical piece should be played very fast and lively.
- allelomorphs — Plural form of allelomorph.
- allman style — indent style
- allosauruses — Plural form of allosaurus.
- alloy wheels — wheels made from an steel alloy, usually of aluminium or magnesium, for improved properties such as reduced weight, better heat conductance and a shiny appearance
- alluringness — The state or quality of being alluring.
- allusiveness — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- almightiness — The state or quality of being almighty.
- almond paste — ground almond mixture
- alongside of — at the side of; beside; adjoining
- alpha leonis — Regulus1
- alphabetised — (British) Arranged in alphabetical order.
- alphabetiser — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetizer.
- alphabetizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alphabetize.
- alphaviruses — Plural form of alphavirus.
- alpine-style — of or in an ascent (esp in high mountains like the Himalayas) in which the climbers carry all their equipment with them in a single ascent from base to summit
- alstroemeria — any plant of the tuberous perennial liliaceous genus Alstroemeria, originally S American, grown for their brightly coloured orchid-like flowers
- altar server — server (def 5).
- altercations — Plural form of altercation.
- alternations — Plural form of alternation.
- alternatives — a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility: You have the alternative of riding or walking.
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- amateurishly — In an amateurish or nonprofessional manner.
- ambitionless — without ambition, unambitious
- ambulatories — Plural form of ambulatory.
- amelogenesis — the production of enamel by ameloblasts
- amenableness — The state or quality of being amenable.
- amicableness — The state or quality of being amicable.
- aminophenols — Plural form of aminophenol.
- ampere's law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
- amphicoelous — (of the vertebrae of most fishes and some amphibians) concave at the anterior and posterior ends
- ampullaceous — shaped like an ampulla or a bladder
- amuse-gueule — amuse-bouche.
- amyl sulfide — a yellow liquid consisting of a mixture of isomers having the formula (C 5 H 11) 2 S, used chiefly in the preparation of organic sulfur compounds.