7-letter words containing r, e, l, t
- legator — a person who bequeaths; a testator.
- leister — a spearlike implement having three or more prongs, for use in spearing fish.
- leitrim — a county of N Republic of Ireland in Connacht province, on Donegal Bay: agricultural. County town: Carrick-on-Shannon. Pop: 25 799 (2002). Area: 1525 sq km (589 sq miles)
- lenotre — André [ahn-drey] /ɑ̃ˈdreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1613–1700, French architect and landscape designer.
- leotard — a skintight, one-piece garment for the torso, having a high or low neck, long or short sleeves, and a lower portion resembling either briefs or tights, worn by acrobats, dancers, etc.
- let rip — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- letters — a person who lets, especially one who rents out property.
- leuctra — a town in ancient Greece, in Boeotia: Thebans defeated Spartans here 371 b.c.
- levator — Anatomy. a muscle that raises a part of the body. Compare depressor.
- leveret — a young hare.
- leviter — (in prescriptions) lightly.
- leyster — Judith, 1609–60, Dutch painter.
- liberty — freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
- librate — to oscillate or move from side to side or between two points.
- lifters — Plural form of lifter.
- lighter — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- limiter — a person or thing that limits.
- linters — the short fibres stripped from ginned cotton seeds
- listers — Plural form of lister.
- literal — in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical: the literal meaning of a word.
- litters — Plural form of litter.
- littery — of, relating to, or covered with litter; untidy.
- littler — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- loather — unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse: to be loath to admit a mistake.
- lobster — any of various large, edible, marine, usually dull-green, stalk-eyed decapod crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having large, asymmetrical pincers on the first pair of legs, one used for crushing and the other for cutting and tearing: the shell turns bright red when cooked.
- locater — a person who locates something.
- loftier — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- loiters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loiter.
- looters — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- lorentz — Hendrik Antoon [hen-drik ahn-tohn] /ˈhɛn drɪk ˈɑn toʊn/ (Show IPA), 1853–1928, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1902.
- loretta — a female given name, form of Laura.
- lorette — (dated) A woman of low morals, especially associated with the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette district of Paris.
- lorient — a seaport in NW France, on the Bay of Biscay.
- lottery — a gambling game or method of raising money, as for some public charitable purpose, in which a large number of tickets are sold and a drawing is held for certain prizes.
- lusters — Plural form of luster.
- lustier — Comparative form of lusty.
- lustred — Having a lustre.
- lustres — Plural form of lustre.
- luthern — a dormer window.
- luthier — a maker of stringed instruments, as violins.
- lyrated — Alternative form of lyrate.
- marlite — an indurated marl.
- martele — martellato.
- martlet — British Dialect. a house martin.
- milters — Plural form of milter.
- mottler — A brush used to create a mottled surface by removing parts of the glaze from an object.
- multure — a toll or fee given to the proprietor of a mill for the grinding of grain, usually consisting of a fixed proportion of the grain brought or of the flour made.
- myrtles — Plural form of myrtle.
- nestler — One that nestles.
- nettler — an irritating or aggravating person or thing