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13-letter words containing s, a, l, t

  • kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
  • klamath falls — a city in SW Oregon.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • labyrinthitis — inflammation of the inner ear, or labyrinth, characterized by dizziness, nausea, and visual disturbances.
  • lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
  • lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
  • ladder stitch — an embroidery stitch in which crossbars at equal distances are produced between two solid ridges of raised work.
  • lady's mantle — any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
  • laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
  • lamp standard — a tall metal or concrete post supporting a street lamp
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landfill site — also landfill
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
  • landing strip — airstrip.
  • landsmanshaft — a fraternal organization made up of immigrants from the same region.
  • language arts — study of reading and writing
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • laparoscopist — One who carries out laparoscopy.
  • laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
  • laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
  • laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
  • lavatory seat — the part on a toilet or lavatory which can be moved up or down and which is used for sitting on
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • lead arsenate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, highly poisonous powder, PbHAsO 4 , used as an insecticide.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
  • least squares — a method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • legacy system — (jargon)   A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
  • legislatively — By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
  • legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
  • leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
  • let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
  • let us assume — You can use let us assume or let's assume when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
  • let's face it — You use the expression 'let's face it' when you are stating a fact or making a comment about something which you think the person you are talking to may find unpleasant or be unwilling to admit.
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