13-letter words containing o, u, r, l
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- interlocution — conversation; dialogue.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interlunation — the interlunar period.
- interneuronal — (neurology) Between neurons.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- intervolution — (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- 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
- irreligiously — In an irreligious fashion.
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- jacquard loom — a loom for producing elaborate designs in an intricate weave (Jacquard weave) constructed from a variety of basic weaves.
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- 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.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
- 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.
- labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- 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.
- laundry-woman — laundress.
- lauroyl group — the monovalent organic group C 12 H 23 O–, derived from lauric acid.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
- leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.