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13-letter words containing r, a, i, l, n

  • landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
  • landing strip — airstrip.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • laramie range — a mountain range in N Colorado and SE Wyoming. Highest peak, Laramie Peak, 9020 feet (2749 meters).
  • laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
  • laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
  • laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
  • laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
  • lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
  • lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
  • latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • latin quarter — the quarter of Paris on the south side of the Seine, especially frequented for centuries by students, writers, and artists.
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
  • leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
  • least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
  • legionary ant — army ant
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
  • liberationism — the principles of liberationists
  • liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • line integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given curve approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the length of the arcs in the partition times the value of the function at some point on each arc.
  • linearisation — Alternative spelling of linearization.
  • linearization — The modification of a system such that its output is linearly dependent on its input.
  • 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.
  • lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
  • loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
  • losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
  • lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
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