12-letter words containing l, u, e
- householders — Plural form of householder.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- human shield — a person or group of people located or intentionally placed in a potential line of fire or in an area likely to be attacked.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- humourlessly — Alternative spelling of humorlessly.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydroculture — A type of hydroponics in which plants are grown in a medium that allows the distribution of water and nutrients through capillary action.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperarousal — A state of heightened psychological and physiological tension resulting in reduced pain tolerance, anxiety, excessive response to sensory stimulation, insomnia, and fatigue.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypersensual — extremely or excessively sensual
- hypertextual — Of or relating to hypertext.
- hyposulphate — a salt derived from hyposulphuric acid
- hyposulphite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- ill-equipped — badly or inadequately equipped: an ill-equipped army.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- illaqueation — the act of ensnaring
- illiterature — (archaic) Lack of learning; illiteracy.
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- illusiveness — illusory.
- illusoriness — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- immaculately — free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inadequately — not adequate or sufficient; inept or unsuitable.
- inaniloquent — Tending to speak inanely; loquacious; garrulous.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- incalculable — very numerous or great.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- incestuously — involving incest.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account