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13-letter words containing s, i, l, e, r

  • laisser-aller — unchecked freedom or ease; unrestraint; looseness.
  • laissez aller — unchecked freedom or ease; unrestraint; looseness.
  • laissez-faire — of, relating to, or conforming to the principles or practices of laissez faire.
  • lake district — a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.
  • lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
  • lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
  • 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.
  • landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lane markings — white lines on the road that mark lanes
  • lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
  • laparoscopies — Plural form of laparoscopy.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
  • 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.
  • lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
  • lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • leading reins — straps or a harness and strap used to assist and control a child who is learning to walk
  • 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.
  • lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
  • legal adviser — a lawyer who gives advice
  • legislatorial — of or relating to a legislator, legislature, or legislation; legislative.
  • leisureliness — The property of being leisurely.
  • leonine verse — a form of verse, based upon an earlier Latin form, with a rhyme scheme that requires the last word in a line to rhyme with the word just before a caesura or with a word near the middle of the line.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leptospirosis — an infectious disease of humans and of horses, dogs, swine, and other animals, caused by the spirochete Leptospira interrogans and characterized by fever, muscle pain, and jaundice, and in severe cases involving the liver and kidney.
  • letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
  • libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
  • liberationism — the principles of liberationists
  • liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
  • library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • lickerishness — Quality of being lickerish.
  • life interest — interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.
  • light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
  • like a streak — at high speed; swiftly
  • like sardines — very closely crowded together
  • line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
  • linearisation — Alternative spelling of linearization.
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