11-letter words containing l, o, a, n, r
- lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
- loriciferan — (zoology) Any of several marine animals of the phylum Loricifera.
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lunar month — month (def 5).
- lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
- lunar rover — a wire-wheeled, battery-powered vehicle used by Apollo astronauts to explore the moon's surface.
- lunar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- luoravetlan — Chukotian.
- luxuriation — The act of enjoying or experiencing luxury.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- macronuclei — Plural form of macronucleus.
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- malonylurea — barbituric acid.
- mandatorily — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- manila rope — rope made from Manila hemp.
- manipulator — a person who manipulates.
- manorialism — the manorial organization, or its principles and practices in the Middle Ages.
- manorialize — to bring under manorialism.
- mantelboard — mantel.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- matrimonial — of or relating to matrimony; marital; nuptial; connubial; conjugal.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- melanoderma — (pathology) An unusual darkening of the skin.
- melanophore — a pigmented connective-tissue cell containing melanin in its cytoplasm, responsible for color changes in many fishes and reptiles.
- melioration — Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def 2).
- memory lane — the memory of one's past life likened to a road down which one may travel: The class reunion was a trip down memory lane.
- meridionals — Plural form of meridional.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- migrational — the process or act of migrating.
- mill around — walk about
- millionaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
- molendinary — a mill
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- monarchical — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monocularly — In a monocular manner.
- monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
- mononuclear — Also, mononucleate. Cell Biology. having only one nucleus.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- monte carlo — a town in Monaco principality, in SE France: gambling resort.
- montherlant — Henry de [ahn-ree duh] /ɑ̃ˈri də/ (Show IPA), 1896–1972, French author.
- moon pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the moon, believed to be caused by the reflection of moonlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.