12-letter words containing l, s, e, r
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- landlordless — Without a landlord.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
- laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
- last quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
- lateral lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lateral pass — a short pass thrown or tossed parallel to the line of scrimmage or slightly backward from the position of the passer.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- lay sth bare — If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them.
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
- leather star — a starfish, Dermasterias imbricata, of the western coast of North America, having the body covered by a thick, leathery skin.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- lectionaries — Plural form of lectionary.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
- legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leisure suit — a man's casual suit, consisting of trousers and a matching jacket styled like a shirt, often made in pastel colors.
- leisure time — free time
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- leon trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.