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12-letter words containing r, l, f

  • leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
  • leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
  • leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
  • life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
  • life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life peerage — the title and rank of a life peer
  • 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.
  • lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
  • lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
  • ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
  • line of fire — the straight horizontal line from the muzzle of a weapon in the direction of the axis of the bore, just prior to firing.
  • line officer — a military or naval officer serving with combatant units or warships, as distinguished from a staff officer, supply officer, etc.
  • live in fear — You can use expressions such as to live in fear and to live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
  • live-forever — a widely cultivated succulent plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, coarsely toothed leaves and flat clusters of purplish flowers.
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • look out for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
  • loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
  • loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
  • luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
  • macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
  • malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • malformation — faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
  • manufactural — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • married life — living as sb's spouse
  • mass funeral — a funeral held for several dead people at the same time
  • mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
  • mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
  • microfibrils — Plural form of microfibril.
  • microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
  • microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
  • microfluidic — Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics.
  • microfossils — a fossil so small that it can be studied and identified only with a microscope.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
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