13-letter words containing l, u, n, a, r
- interquartile — Situated between the first and third quartiles of a distribution.
- interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
- intersexually — In an intersexual way.
- intervalvular — Between valves.
- intracapsular — Within a capsule.
- intracellular — within a cell or cells.
- intracultural — Within a single culture.
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- intratelluric — Geology. located in, taking place in, or resulting from action beneath the lithosphere.
- intravalvular — Between valves.
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- involuntarily — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- january sales — sales held after Christmas to encourage customers back to the shops
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
- kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
- laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- language arts — study of reading and writing
- lap of honour — If the winner of a race or game does a lap of honour, they run or drive slowly around a race track or sports field in order to receive the applause of the crowd.
- latin quarter — the quarter of Paris on the south side of the Seine, especially frequented for centuries by students, writers, and artists.
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
- lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- luang prabang — Louangphrabang.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lunar caustic — silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- lunar landing — arrival on surface of the moon
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
- lunar rainbow — moonbow.
- lusus naturae — a deformed person or thing; freak.
- luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.