11-letter words containing r, e, l, c, t
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- leatherback — a sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, having the shell embedded in a leathery skin, reaching a length of more than 7 feet (2.1 meter) and a weight of more than 1000 pounds (450 kg): the largest living sea turtle; an endangered species.
- leatherjack — Leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites).
- leatherneck — a U.S. marine.
- lecturelike — Resembling a lecture or some aspect of one.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- lecythiform — (biology, mycology) shaped like a bowling pin, a flask, or a bottle.
- leptocercal — having a long thin tail
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- lethargical — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- letter card — a large postal card, with gummed edges, that can be folded lengthwise and sealed with the message inside.
- letter-card — a large postal card, with gummed edges, that can be folded lengthwise and sealed with the message inside.
- letterspace — to space out (the letters of a word or line) for balance or emphasis.
- leucocratic — (of a rock) composed mainly of light-colored minerals.
- lex scripta — written law; statute law.
- liberticide — destruction of liberty.
- liberty cap — a soft, conical cap given to a freed slave in ancient Rome at manumission of his servitude, used as a symbol of liberty, especially since the 18th century.
- light cream — sweet cream with less butterfat than heavy cream.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- line vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- little rock — state in S central United States. 53,103 sq. mi. (137,537 sq. km). Capital: Little Rock. Abbreviation: AR (for use with zip code), Ark.
- live center — Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- live centre — a conically pointed rod mounted in the headstock of a lathe that locates and turns with the workpiece
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- locorestive — having a tendency to rest in one place
- logocentric — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- luteotropic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- maeterlinck — Comte Maurice [French moh-rees] /French moʊˈris/ (Show IPA), 1862–1947, Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1911.
- mailcatcher — a device on a mail car that, while the train is moving, picks up mailbags suspended beside the track.
- maledictory — a curse; imprecation.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- malefactory — villainous
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- mantle rock — the layer of disintegrated and decomposed rock fragments, including soil, just above the solid rock of the earth's crust; regolith.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- masterclass — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- melioristic — the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metaculture — All the universal concepts that are present in all cultures.
- metallurgic — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.