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14-letter words containing l, o, a, n, r

  • irreconcilably — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • italian clover — crimson clover.
  • journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
  • journal intime — a personal or private diary.
  • journalization — to tell or relate as one would in keeping a journal.
  • jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
  • labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
  • labor unionist — unionist (def 2).
  • labradorescent — (of minerals) displaying a brilliant play of colours, as that shown by some forms of labradorite
  • labyrinthodont — any member of several orders of small to large lizardlike terrestrial and freshwater amphibians, some ancestral to land vertebrates, forming the extinct subclass Labyrinthodonta that flourished from the Devonian through the Triassic periods, characterized by a solid, flattened skull and conical teeth.
  • ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
  • lance corporal — U.S. Marine Corps. an enlisted person ranking between private first class and corporal.
  • landing ground — airfield
  • languorousness — The quality of being languorous.
  • lantern pinion — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • laryngological — Of or pertaining to laryngology.
  • laryngopharynx — the lower part of the pharynx, above the larynx.
  • laryngoscopies — Plural form of laryngoscopy.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lateralisation — Alternative spelling of lateralization.
  • lateralization — functional specialization of the brain, with some skills, as language, occurring primarily in the left hemisphere and others, as the perception of visual and spatial relationships, occurring primarily in the right hemisphere.
  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • lead carbonate — a white crystalline compound, PbCO 3 , toxic when inhaled, insoluble in water and alcohol: used as an exterior paint pigment.
  • lemon geranium — a garden geranium, Pelargonium crispum, having lemon-scented leaves.
  • lemonade berry — a sumac, Rhus integrifolia, of southern California, having hairy, dark-red fruits used to make a beverage resembling lemonade.
  • lemongrass oil — an aromatic oil made from lemon grass and used in aromatherapy, as a pesticide, and as a preservative
  • leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
  • levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
  • lexington park — a town in S Maryland.
  • liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
  • liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
  • light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • linkage editor — linker
  • linkage-editor — a system program that combines independently compiled object modules or load modules into a single load module.
  • literalization — The act or process of literalizing.
  • livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
  • load-line mark — any of various marks by which the allowable loading and the load line at load displacement are established for a merchant vessel; a load line.
  • loan agreement — an agreement on the terms of a loan
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
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