13-letter words containing r, e, i, n, l
- kirkland lake — a town in E Ontario, in S Canada: gold-mining center.
- klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
- kriss kringle — Santa Claus.
- kyrie eleison — (italics) the brief petition “Lord, have mercy,” used in various offices of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Roman Catholic Church.
- labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
- laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- lacrimal bone — a small, thin, membrane bone forming the front part of the inner wall of each orbit.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- laevorotation — a rotation to the left
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- 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).
- 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.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- legionary ant — army ant
- leisureliness — The property of being leisurely.
- leonine rhyme — the form of internal rhyme used in leonine verse.
- leonine verse — a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
- liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- 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).