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13-letter words containing r, e, n, a, l

  • kirkland lake — a town in E Ontario, in S Canada: gold-mining center.
  • knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
  • labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
  • laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • 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
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • 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.
  • landed gentry — land-owning class
  • 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
  • language arts — study of reading and writing
  • lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • lantern wheel — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • lantern-jawed — having a lantern jaw.
  • laramie range — a mountain range in N Colorado and SE Wyoming. Highest peak, Laramie Peak, 9020 feet (2749 meters).
  • laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
  • laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
  • 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 canal — a canal running parallel to a stream that is inconvenient or impossible to navigate.
  • 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.
  • lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • lead arsenate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, highly poisonous powder, PbHAsO 4 , used as an insecticide.
  • 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.
  • legionary ant — army ant
  • lemon verbena — a plant, Aloysia triphylla, having long, slender leaves with a lemonlike fragrance.
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