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12-letter words containing r, o, s, a, l

  • kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
  • keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
  • kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
  • labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • 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.
  • labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
  • labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
  • labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
  • 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)
  • lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
  • landlordless — Without a landlord.
  • lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
  • languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
  • laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
  • laparoscopic — a flexible fiberoptic instrument, passed through a small incision in the abdominal wall and equipped with biopsy forceps, an obturator, scissors or the like, with which to examine the abdominal cavity or perform minor surgery.
  • laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
  • lark sparrow — a North American sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, having a distinctive brown-and-white facial pattern.
  • laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
  • laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
  • laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
  • laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
  • last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
  • lay store by — to value or reckon as important
  • leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
  • 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.
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
  • lectionaries — Plural form of lectionary.
  • legionnaires — Plural form of legionnaire.
  • leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
  • leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
  • leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
  • leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
  • lion's share — the largest part or share, especially a disproportionate portion: The eldest son received the lion's share of the estate.
  • liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
  • litholatrous — of or relating to the worship of stones
  • loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
  • 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
  • loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
  • long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
  • longirostral — (of birds) having a long beak
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • look daggers — 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.
  • lord's table — the, communion table.
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