13-letter words containing r, o, l, i
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- louis pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
- lunar rainbow — moonbow.
- luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- luxuriousness — characterized by luxury; ministering or conducive to luxury: a luxurious hotel.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- lymphotrophic — carrying nutrients from the lymph to the tissues.
- macro-mineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
- macrocephalic — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macroclimates — Plural form of macroclimate.
- macroclimatic — Relating to macroclimate.
- macrodiagonal — the longer of two diagonals
- macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
- macrolecithal — megalecithal.
- macroscopical — Macroscopic.
- mail exploder — (messaging) Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
- malabsorbtion — Misspelling of malabsorption.
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malapropistic — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- malariologist — An expert in malaria.
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- mallemaroking — (historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
- mammaliferous — containing the remains of mammals
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- marbleization — The process of marbleizing.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- marginal note — aside
- mariposa lily — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- martagon lily — Turk's-cap lily.
- martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
- master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
- material mode — the normal use of language that refers to extra-linguistic subjects without explicit mention of the words themselves. Fido is a dog is in the material mode, while "Fido" is a dog's name is in the formal mode