12-letter words containing s, c, a, l, r
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- journalistic — of, relating to, or characteristic of journalists or journalism.
- junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
- juristically — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
- kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lacrimal sac — the dilated upper portion of the nasolacrimal duct that receives tears from the lacrimal ducts.
- lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
- lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
- 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.
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- 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.
- latchstrings — Plural form of latchstring.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latus rectum — the chord perpendicular to the principal axis and passing through a focus of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola.
- lay a course — to sail on a planned course without tacking
- lead crystal — cut glass containing lead oxide
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- lectionaries — Plural form of lectionary.
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- liberalistic — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- linear space — vector space.
- liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
- literalistic — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- macassar oil — an oil derived from materials said to be obtained from Macassar, formerly used as a hairdressing.
- mackerel sky — an extensive group of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds, especially when well-marked in their arrangement: so called because of a resemblance to the scales on a mackerel.
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- marcellus ii — (Marcello Cervini) 1501–55, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555.
- mare clausum — a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- master class — a small class for advanced students, especially a class in performance skills conducted by a distinguished musician.
- matriclinous — Having mostly maternally-inherited characteristics.
- matriculants — Plural form of matriculant.
- matriculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of matriculate.
- matroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the maternal parent (opposed to patrocliny).
- mercantilism — mercantile practices or spirit; commercialism.