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12-letter words containing r, a, l, e, s

  • irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
  • irresistable — Misspelling of irresistible.
  • irresistably — Misspelling of irresistibly.
  • irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
  • irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
  • irrespirable — not respirable; unfit for breathing.
  • isapi filter — (web)   A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
  • ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
  • isobilateral — (esp of a leaf) capable of being divided into symmetrical halves along two different planes
  • isoprenaline — a compound that is a derivative of adrenaline and that is used to treat asthma and bronchial conditions. Formula: C11H17NO3
  • isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
  • jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
  • jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
  • java servlet — (web)   (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
  • jeopardously — with risk or peril
  • jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
  • jus naturale — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
  • kepler's law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
  • kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
  • knee-slapper — a joke evoking boisterous hilarity.
  • laboratories — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
  • ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
  • lady-slipper — cypripedium
  • lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
  • lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
  • lammergeiers — Plural form of lammergeier.
  • lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
  • lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
  • land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
  • land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
  • landgrabbers — Plural form of landgrabber.
  • landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
  • landlordless — Without a landlord.
  • lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
  • lansker line — (in Pembrokeshire) the linguistic and ethnic division between the Welsh-speaking north and the English-speaking south
  • lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
  • laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
  • larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
  • 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.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
  • laser-guided — (of a missile, etc) guided with the use of a laser beam
  • last quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
  • lateral lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
  • lateral pass — a short pass thrown or tossed parallel to the line of scrimmage or slightly backward from the position of the passer.
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
  • latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
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