10-letter words containing l, e, v, r
- inverclyde — a council area of W central Scotland: created in 1996 from part of Strathclyde region. Administrative centre: Greenock. Pop: 83 050 (2003 est). Area: 162 sq km (63 sq miles)
- invertedly — In an inverted manner, or reverse order.
- invertible — to turn upside down.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- involucres — Plural form of involucre.
- irrelative — not relative; without relation (usually followed by to).
- irrelevant — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- jail fever — a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails
- javelineer — A soldier who throws a javelin.
- javelinier — A soldier who throws a javelin.
- kingsolver — Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
- kirksville — a city in N Missouri.
- labiovelar — pronounced with simultaneous bilabial and velar articulations, as w.
- lacerative — Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
- lagerkvist — Pär [par] /pær/ (Show IPA), 1891–1974, Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist: Nobel Prize 1951.
- land rover — a four-wheel drive vehicle
- landgraves — Plural form of landgrave.
- larvicides — Plural form of larvicide.
- lavalliere — an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck.
- lavatories — Plural form of lavatory.
- laverbread — laver seaweed fried as a breakfast food; popular in Wales
- lentiviral — Of or pertaining to a lentivirus.
- lentivirus — any slow virus of the genus Lentivirus, of the retrovirus family, causing brain disease in sheep and other animals.
- leveraging — the action of a lever, a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third.
- leverhulme — Viscount (William Hesketh Lever) 1851–1925, English soap manufacturer, originator of an employee profit-sharing plan, and founder of a model industrial town.
- leverkusen — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, on the Rhine.
- leviration — Levirate marriage.
- levogyrate — levorotatory
- levorotary — Levorotatory.
- lévy-bruhl — Lucien (lysjɛ̃). 1857–1939, French anthropologist and philosopher, noted for his study of the psychology of primitive peoples
- liberative — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- libreville — Official name Gabonese Republic. a republic in W equatorial Africa: formerly a part of French Equatorial Africa; member of the French Community. 102,290 sq. mi. (264,931 sq. km). Capital: Libreville.
- life-saver — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifesavers — Plural form of lifesaver.
- line drive — a batted ball that travels low, fast, and straight.
- live birth — the birth of a living child
- livebearer — any viviparous fish of the family Poeciliidae, often kept in home aquariums.
- liver opal — a form of opal having a reddish-brown coloration
- liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
- liver spot — a dark brown skin spot, usually caused by sun exposure
- liverworts — Plural form of liverwort.
- liverwurst — a sausage made with a large percentage of liver, especially one made with pork liver and pork meat.
- livescript — JavaScript
- livestream — to broadcast (an event) on the internet as it happens
- loch raven — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- lost river — a river that flows into an underground passage or sinkhole.
- loup river — a river in E central Nebraska, flowing E to the Platte River. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- love story — story about a romantic relationship
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- lovestruck — Alternative spelling of love-struck.