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12-letter words containing r, a, t, l

  • labor market — the available supply of labor considered with reference to the demand for it.
  • laboratorial — 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.
  • laboratorian — 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.
  • 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.
  • labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
  • labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
  • labrador tea — a North American bog shrub, Ledum groenlandicum, of the heath family, having evergreen leaves and rounded clusters of white flowers.
  • labyrinthian — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
  • labyrinthine — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
  • lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
  • lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
  • lachrymatory — of, relating to, or causing the shedding of tears.
  • lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • lacquer tree — any of several trees yielding a resin used as lacquer, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
  • lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
  • ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.
  • ladder truck — hook and ladder.
  • lady teacher — a teacher who is a woman
  • lahore party — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
  • lake ontario — a province in S Canada, bordering on the Great Lakes. 412,582 sq. mi. (1,068,585 sq. km). Capital: Toronto.
  • 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)
  • lake turkana — a long narrow lake in E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. Area: 7104 sq km (2743 sq miles)
  • lake vättern — a lake in S central Sweden: the second largest lake in Sweden; linked to Lake Vänern by the Göta Canal; drains into the Baltic. Area: 1912 sq km (738 sq miles)
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • lamp trimmer — a sailor responsible for keeping the oil lamps of a ship burning brightly, especially the deck and navigation lamps.
  • lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
  • land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
  • landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
  • 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.
  • lantern gear — a gear mechanism including a lantern wheel.
  • lantern ring — gland2 (def 1).
  • lantern tree — a Chilean tree (Crinodendron hookerianum) of a family (Elaeocarpaceae, order Malvales) of tropical dicotyledonous trees and shrubs having leathery, elliptical leaves and hanging, red flowers, sometimes grown in the far S U.S. as an ornamental
  • laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
  • laparotomize — to perform a laparotomy on.
  • lappeenranta — a city in SE Finland.
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • largehearted — having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • 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.
  • laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
  • last quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a full moon, when half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
  • latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
  • late bloomer — a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop: A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.
  • late trading — trading carried out after the standard national exchanges have closed, and which is usually illegal
  • lateenrigged — having lateen sails.
  • lateral line — the line, or system of lines, of sensory structures along the head and sides of fishes and amphibians, by which the animal is believed to detect water current and pressure changes and vibrations.
  • 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.
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