12-letter words containing r, e, l
- anorthoclase — a variety of microcline, rich in sodium and sometimes having a play of color: sometimes considered a variety of orthoclase.
- antebrachial — Lb anatomy relating to the forearm.
- anteprandial — before dinner
- anthelic arc — a rare halo occurring at the sun's elevation but in the opposite part of the sky.
- anthologiser — Alternative spelling of anthologizer.
- anthologizer — an anthologist; a creator of an anthology
- anthranilate — a salt present in anthranilic acid
- anti-leaguer — a person who opposed the League of Nations or U.S. participation in it.
- anti-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- anti-nuclear — opposed to military and industrial applications of nuclear energy and to technologies which produce radioactive waste products
- anti-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- antiallergic — An antiallergic substance prevents or relieves allergies.
- anticlerical — opposed to the power and influence of the clergy, esp in politics
- antielectron — an elementary particle with a positive charge, a positron
- antifebriles — Plural form of antifebrile.
- antigropelos — waterproof leggings used to protect against mud
- antiliterate — opposed to literacy, acting against literacy
- antimaterial — Lb particle physics Composed of antimatter.
- antiparallel — parallel but pointing in the opposite direction
- antiparticle — any of a group of elementary particles that have the same mass and spin as their corresponding particle but have opposite values for all other nonzero quantum numbers. When a particle collides with its antiparticle, mutual annihilation occurs
- antipleasure — opposed to pleasure
- antireligion — opposed to religion
- anton sailer — Anton [ahn-tohn] /ˈɑn toʊn/ (Show IPA), ("Toni") 1935–2009, Austrian skier.
- antwerp blue — any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.
- aortic valve — a semilunar valve between the aorta and the left ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the left ventricle.
- apfelstrudel — apple strudel
- apostle bird — a gregarious grey-and-brown Australian nest-building bird, Struthidea cinerea
- appeal court — An appeal court is the same as a Court of Appeal.
- appendicular — relating to an appendage or appendicle
- apple brandy — an alcoholic liquor made with apples
- apple butter — a jam made from stewed spiced apples
- apple sucker — a small homopterous insect, Psyllia mali, originally of Europe, that is a serious pest of apple crops.
- appleknocker — Northern U.S. a rustic.
- appletviewer — (web, testing) A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
- applied arts — arts that are put to practical use
- approachable — If you describe someone as approachable, you think that they are friendly and easy to talk to.
- appropriable — that can be appropriated
- arabia felix — an ancient division of Arabia, in the S part: sometimes restricted to Yemen.
- araeosystyle — (of columned buildings) having an alternately very wide and very narrow intercolumniation
- archaeologic — Pertaining to archaeology.
- archeologist — archaeology.
- archesporial — the primitive cell, or group of cells, that give rise to the cells from which spores are derived.
- archetypally — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
- archetypical — Archetypical means the same as archetypal.
- archiannelid — (zoology) Any member of the Archiannelida.
- archipelagic — a large group or chain of islands: the Malay Archipelago.
- archipelagos — Plural form of archipelago.
- archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
- arena chapel — a private chapel in Padua containing a fresco cycle painted (1305–06) by Giotto.
- argillaceous — (of sedimentary rocks and deposits) composed of very fine-grained material, such as clay, shale, etc