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13-letter words containing l, i, n, e, t, r

  • isoelectronic — noting or pertaining to atoms and ions having an equal number of electrons.
  • isoproterenol — a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist, C 11 H 17 NO 3 , used as a bronchodilator.
  • italian aster — a composite plant, Aster amellus, of Eurasia, having clustered, purple flower heads.
  • italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
  • jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
  • kentish glory — a moth, Endromis versicolora, common in north and central Europe, having brown variegated front wings and, in the male, orange hindwings
  • kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
  • lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
  • laevorotation — a rotation to the left
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
  • laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
  • lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
  • lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
  • latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • latin quarter — the quarter of Paris on the south side of the Seine, especially frequented for centuries by students, writers, and artists.
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
  • least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
  • lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
  • legionary ant — army ant
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • liberationism — the principles of liberationists
  • liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • life interest — interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.
  • lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • lighter flint — the small piece of flint in a lighter pressure on which creates a spark that ignites the fuel
  • line integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given curve approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the length of the arcs in the partition times the value of the function at some point on each arc.
  • line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
  • linearisation — Alternative spelling of linearization.
  • linearization — The modification of a system such that its output is linearly dependent on its input.
  • little finger — the finger farthest from the thumb, the smallest of the five fingers.
  • little prince — an allegorical fantasy (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • love triangle — relationship between three people
  • love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
  • low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
  • lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
  • lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
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