11-letter words containing t, r, o, u
- lion-hunter — a person who hunts lions, esp for sport
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- litter lout — a person who tends to drop refuse in public places
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- locutionary — pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener.
- lotus sutra — a central scripture of Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizing that anyone can attain enlightenment
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lotusscript — (language) A Visual BASIC-like scripting language for Lotus Notes and Lotus SmartSuite. LotusScript is object-oriented and can be used for complex Notes programming, although Java is also available.
- low-country — Often, Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubritorium — a place, as in a service station, for the lubrication of motor vehicles
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lunar month — month (def 5).
- lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
- lunar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- luoravetlan — Chukotian.
- luteotropic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- luteotropin — prolactin.
- luxuriation — The act of enjoying or experiencing luxury.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- macromutant — undergoing macromutation.
- maggotorium — a place where maggots are bred for use by fishers
- malt liquor — beer having a relatively high alcohol content, usually 5 to 8 percent.
- manducatory — Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- manipulator — a person who manipulates.
- manufactory — a factory.
- maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
- masturbator — to engage in masturbation.
- measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
- meritorious — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- merry mount — a settlement in Mt. Wollaston (Quincy), Mass., c1625–28, noted for its rejection of Puritan standards of behavior.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- microbursts — Plural form of microburst.
- microtrauma — (medicine) Any small, insignificant injury, but especially one of a series (such as suffered by athletes) that can lead to major injury.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- micturition — the act of passing urine; urination.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- mitropoulos — Dimitri [dih-mee-tree;; Greek th ee-mee-tree] /dɪˈmi tri;; Greek ðiˈmi tri/ (Show IPA), 1897–1960, Greek symphony orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- moisturiser — (British) alternative spelling of moisturizer.
- moisturized — Simple past tense and past participle of moisturize.
- moisturizer — a cosmetic preparation, as a cream or lotion, used to restore moisture to the skin, especially of the face and neck.
- moisturizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moisturize.