12-letter words containing r, l, e
- aethelred ii — ("Ethelred the Unready") a.d. 968?–1016, king of England 978–1013, 1014–1016.
- afforestable — having the capacity to be turned into forest
- affrightedly — in a frightened or alarmed manner
- after-school — After-school activities are those that are organized for children in the afternoon or evening after they have finished school.
- agglomerated — gathered together into a cluster or mass.
- agglomerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agglomerate.
- agglomerator — gathered together into a cluster or mass.
- aggravatedly — In an aggravated manner.
- aggressively — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- agranulocyte — a white blood cell without granules in its cytoplasm
- agreeability — an agreeable disposition
- agrichemical — a chemical used in agriculture
- agrochemical — a chemical, such as a pesticide, used for agricultural purposes
- aids-related — caused by or associated with the AIDS virus
- aileron roll — a roll consisting of one or more rotations, usually controlled by the use of ailerons.
- ailurophiles — Plural form of ailurophile.
- ailurophobes — Plural form of ailurophobe.
- air cylinder — a cylinder containing air, esp one fitted with a piston and used for damping purposes
- air embolism — the presence in the tissues and blood of a gas, such as air or nitrogen bubbles, caused by an injection of air or, in the case of nitrogen, by an abrupt and substantial reduction in the ambient pressure
- air layering — a method of propagating a plant by girdling or cutting part way into a stem or branch and packing the area with a moist medium, as sphagnum moss, stimulating root formation so that the stem or branch can be removed and grown as an independent plant.
- air terminal — An air terminal is a building in which passengers wait before they get on to an aeroplane.
- airpocalypse — (informal) The presence of dense smog in many parts of China.
- alarm system — a set of electronic devices that trigger an alarm
- alaska range — a mountain range in S central Alaska. Highest peak: Mount McKinley, 6194 m (20 320 ft)
- albert canal — ship canal in Belgium, from Liège to Antwerp: 81 mi (131 km)
- albert speer — Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- alberti bass — a reiterated broken-chord figure used as an accompaniment, especially in 18th-century rococo keyboard music.
- alcohol-free — (of beer or wine) containing only a trace of alcohol
- aldebaranium — (chemistry, obsolete) A rejected name for ytterbium.
- aldermanlike — resembling an alderman, esp in being pompous
- alexander ii — 1198–1249, king of Scotland (1214–49), son of William (the Lion)
- alexander iv — (Rinaldo Conti) died 1261, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1254–61.
- alexander vi — original name Rodrigo Borgia. 1431–1503, pope (1492–1503): noted for his extravagance and immorality as well as for his patronage of the arts; father of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, with whom he is said to have committed incest
- alexanderson — Ernst F. W [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1878–1975, U.S. engineer and inventor.
- alexandretta — Iskenderun
- alexandrines — Plural form of alexandrine.
- alexandrinus — the Greek uncial codex, dating from the early 5th century a.d., originally containing the complete text of the Greek Old and New Testaments.
- alexipharmac — an antidote
- alexipharmic — acting as an antidote
- alfred mahan — Alfred Thayer [they-er] /ˈθeɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1840–1914, U.S. naval officer and writer on naval history.
- algesiometer — an instrument for determining the sensitiveness of the skin to a painful stimulus.
- alhambresque — like the Alhambra, especially in richness of ornamentation
- alice palmer — Alice Elvira, 1855–1902, U.S. educator.
- alice's fern — Hartford fern.
- alieni juris — under the control of another, as a lunatic or infant.
- alkalimeters — Plural form of alkalimeter.
- all for love — a drama in blank verse (1678) by Dryden.
- all the more — All is used in structures such as all the more or all the better to mean even more or even better than before.
- all the rage — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
- all together — in chorus, in unison