12-letter words containing t, e, l, o, s
- lexicologist — the study of the formation, meaning, and use of words and of idiomatic combinations of words.
- licentiously — In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- likely story — dubious account
- line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
- linen closet — a closet in which sheets, towels, table linens, etc., are kept.
- lipoproteins — Plural form of lipoprotein.
- liquor store — off-licence, shop selling alcohol
- lithogenesis — (geology) The formation of sedimentary rock.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lithotritise — to perform a lithotrity
- little foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
- little horse — the constellation Equuleus.
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- lobster roll — lobster salad served on a frankfurter roll or the like.
- 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
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- long clothes — dress-like garments formerly worn by a baby
- long-sighted — farsighted; hypermetropic.
- long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
- long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- looney-tunes — crazy; demented
- loose-footed — (of a fore-and-aft sail) not having the foot bent to a boom.
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- loosely-knit — associated or linked in a loose way
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- lopez mateos — Adolfo [ah-th awl-faw] /ɑˈðɔl fɔ/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Mexican lawyer and politician: president of Mexico 1958–64.
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- lose no time — act without delay
- louis treize — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the early 17th century, characterized by a gradual transition from the free invention and composition of the renaissance to the classicism of the Louis Quatorze period.
- lover's knot — love knot.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- luminosities — Plural form of luminosity.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- lustrousness — the state or condition of being lustrous
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lysogenicity — the quality or condition of being lysogenic
- lysolecithin — any compound of lecithin produced by the removal of one of the fatty acid groups by hydrolysis
- magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.