11-letter words containing o, l, r, s
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lotusscript — (language) A Visual BASIC-like scripting language for Lotus Notes and Lotus SmartSuite. LotusScript is object-oriented and can be used for complex Notes programming, although Java is also available.
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- low-scoring — (of a sports match) having, getting, or ending in a low score
- low-sulphur — (esp of fuel) containing or made from sources containing relatively little sulphur
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
- lower house — one of two branches of a legislature, generally more representative and with more members than the upper branch.
- lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
- lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
- loxodromics — the technique of navigating according to loxodromes or rhumb lines.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- ludicrously — causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable: a ludicrous lack of efficiency.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- luxuriously — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- macrofossil — a fossil large enough to be studied and identified without the use of a microscope.
- mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
- malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
- malodourous — Alternative form of malodorous.
- maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
- manorialism — the manorial organization, or its principles and practices in the Middle Ages.
- mariologist — a student of Mariology.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marshmallow — a sweetened paste or confection made from the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- melliferous — yielding or producing honey.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- memorialise — (British) alternative spelling of memorialize.
- memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
- memory loss — an impaired memory or amnesia
- meridionals — Plural form of meridional.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- metrologies — Plural form of metrology.