5-letter words containing l, r, a
- lears — Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
- leary — leery1 .
- lehar — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1870–1948, Hungarian composer of operettas.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- lerna — a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- lharc — (compression, algorithm) A compression program developed by Rahul Dhesi. LHARC was later replaced with LHA, which produces files with extension ".lzh".
- liard — a former silver coin of France, the fourth part of a sol, issued from the 15th century to 1793 and made from copper after 1650.
- liars — Plural form of liar.
- libra — the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- lidar — a device similar to radar in principle and operation but using infrared laser light instead of radio waves and capable of detecting particles, distant objects, and varying physical conditions in the atmosphere.
- lifar — Serge [syir-gyey;; French serzh] /syɪrˈgyeɪ;; French sɛrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1905–86, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, in Paris after 1923.
- lobar — of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- loral — of or relating to a lore.
- loran — a system of long-range navigation whereby the latitude and longitude of a ship or airplane are determined from the time displacement between radio signals from two or more fixed transmitters.
- lorca — García Lorca.
- loria — Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications
- lorna — a female given name.
- lubra — an Aborigine girl or woman.
- lugar — Richard G(reen) born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1977–2013.
- lunar — of or relating to the moon: the lunar orbit.
- luray — a town in N Virginia: site of Luray Caverns.
- luria — Salvador Edward, 1912–91, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.
- lyard — streaked or spotted with gray or white.
- lycra — Spandex.
- maerl — an accumulation of red coralline algae
- malar — Lake, a lake in S Sweden, extending W from Stockholm. 440 sq. mi. (1140 sq. km).
- maril — Machine description language used by the Marion code generator.
- marla — (Ireland) Plasticine; modelling clay.
- marly — Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- molar — Also called molar tooth. a tooth having a broad biting surface adapted for grinding, being one of twelve in humans, with three on each side of the upper and lower jaws.
- moral — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- mural — a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
- mylar — A polyester film; see PET film (biaxially oriented).
- neral — a pale yellow, water-insoluble, liquid aldehyde, C 10 H 16 O, having a strong lemonlike odor, consisting in natural form of two isomers (citral a or geranial and citral b or neral) usually obtained from the oils of lemon and orange or synthetically: used chiefly in perfumery, flavoring, and the synthesis of vitamin A.
- orale — fanon (def 2).
- orals — Plural form of oral.
- orval — (botany) Salvia horminum, a kind of sage.
- paler — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
- parle — talk; parley.
- parly — a small gingerbread biscuit
- parol — something stated or declared.
- pearl — a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
- pilar — of, relating to, or covered with hair.
- polar — of or relating to the North or South Pole.
- poral — of or relating to pores
- prial — (in cards) a pair-royal
- pyral — relating to a pyre
- quarl — (archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.
- rabal — the measurement and computation of the speed and direction of winds aloft by theodolitic tracking of a radiosonde.
- rales — an abnormal crackling or rattling sound heard upon auscultation of the chest, caused by disease or congestion of the lungs.