12-letter words containing r, e, s, t, o
- isotretinoin — a yellowish-orange to orange crystalline powder, C 20 H 28 O 2 , used in the treatment of cystic acne.
- jan gossaert — Jan [Flemish yahn] /Flemish yɑn/ (Show IPA), (Jan Gossaert or Gossart) 1478?–1533? Flemish painter.
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- job security — chances of staying in employment
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- keratogenous — producing horn or a horny substance.
- keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
- keratotomies — Plural form of keratotomy.
- keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
- khornerstone — A multipurpose benchmark from Workstation Labs used in various periodicals. The source is not free. Results are published in "UNIX Review".
- korea strait — a strait between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- kosher-style — (of a cuisine, restaurant, etc.) featuring traditional Jewish dishes, but not adhering to the dietary laws: kosher-style cooking.
- laboratories — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- lake torrens — a shallow salt lake in E central South Australia, about 8 m (25 ft) below sea level. Area: 5776 sq km (2230 sq miles)
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- lectionaries — Plural form of lectionary.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- leon trotsky — Leon (Lev or Leib, Davidovich Bronstein) 1879–1940, Russian revolutionary and writer: minister of war 1918–25.
- leptospermum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Leptospermum, of the myrtle family, native to Australia and adjacent areas and often cultivated as ornamentals in milder climates.
- letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- likely story — dubious account
- lipoproteins — Plural form of lipoprotein.
- liquor store — off-licence, shop selling alcohol
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lithotritise — to perform a lithotrity
- little horse — the constellation Equuleus.
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- lobster roll — lobster salad served on a frankfurter roll or the like.
- lobster tail — the flesh of the tail of any of various crustaceans, esp. the Cape crawfish, prepared as food, often by broiling in the shell
- logocentrism — 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.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- louis treize — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the early 17th century, characterized by a gradual transition from the free invention and composition of the renaissance to the classicism of the Louis Quatorze period.
- lover's knot — love knot.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.