12-letter words containing n, a, s, l, c
- intercostals — Plural form of intercostal.
- interlacings — Plural form of interlacing.
- interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- intolerances — Plural form of intolerance.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
- ironicalness — The quality of being ironical.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- isotonically — In an isotonic way.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- 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.
- laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- latin school — a secondary school emphasizing instruction in Latin and Greek.
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- lectionaries — Plural form of lectionary.
- 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.
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linear space — vector space.
- linguistical — (not in technical use) linguistic.
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- localisation — Alternative spelling of localization.
- locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
- loganiaceous — belonging to the plant family Loganiaceae.
- look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion
- loose cannon — a person whose reckless behavior endangers the efforts or welfare of others.
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.