11-letter words containing l, o, n, r
- 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.
- luteotropin — prolactin.
- 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.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- 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).
- melon shrub — pepino (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.
- microcolony — A microscopic colony of cells (especially of bacteria).
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- microfiling — the process of reproducing the contents of a file on microfilm
- microkernel — (operating system) An approach to operating system design emphasising small modules that implement the basic features of the system kernel and can be flexibly configured.
- microlender — A person or company in the business of microlending.
- microneedle — a very fine needle that is used in the performance of delicate procedures, esp biological ones
- micronuclei — Plural form of micronucleus.
- middle-born — neither first nor last in order of birth, especially second in a family of three children.
- migrational — the process or act of migrating.
- mill around — walk about
- millimicron — a unit of length equal to one thousandth of a micron; one-billionth of a meter. Symbol: mμ.
- millionaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
- 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.
- mirror lens — a lens of long focal length in which some of the lens elements are replaced by mirrors in order to shorten its overall length and reduce its weight
- misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
- mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
- molendinary — a mill
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- monarchical — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.