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13-letter words containing m, l, e, a, r

  • liberationism — the principles of liberationists
  • liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
  • lower chamber — lower house.
  • lowerclassman — underclassman.
  • lowerclassmen — underclassman.
  • lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • lucretia mottJohn Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
  • lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
  • mackerel gull — tern1 .
  • macrencephaly — The presence of an abnormally large brain.
  • macro-mineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
  • macrocephalic — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
  • macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
  • macroclimates — Plural form of macroclimate.
  • macrolecithal — megalecithal.
  • macromolecule — a very large molecule, as a colloidal particle, protein, or especially a polymer, composed of hundreds or thousands of atoms.
  • macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
  • madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
  • magic lantern — a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
  • magic realism — a style of painting and literature in which fantastic or imaginary and often unsettling images or events are depicted in a sharply detailed, realistic manner.
  • magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
  • mail exploder — (messaging)   Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
  • mainz psalter — a book printed by Johannes Gutenberg: thought by some to be the first book printed from movable type.
  • major element — any chemical found in great quantity in the rocks of the earth's crust. Compare minor element (def 1).
  • major general — a military officer ranking next below a lieutenant general and next above a brigadier general.
  • major leaguer — either of the two main professional baseball leagues in the U.S.
  • major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
  • major penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player for five minutes from play, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • major release — (programming)   A release of a piece of software which is not merely a revision or a bug fix release but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the interface, change in compatibility). Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a revision. See also major delivery.
  • major-leaguer — a member of a major-league team.
  • majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
  • maladminister — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
  • maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
  • mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
  • malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
  • maltese cross — a cross having four equal arms that expand in width outward.
  • mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
  • managerialism — Belief in or reliance on the use of professional managers in administering or planning an activity.
  • mangel-wurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
  • manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
  • manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • mar del plata — a city in E Argentina: seaside resort.
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