11-letter words containing t, u, l, e
- intreatfull — full of entreaty
- intrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- intuitively — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
- inutterable — unutterable.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- irrefutable — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- irrefutably — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- irreputable — (obsolete) disreputable.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- itacolumite — a sandstone consisting of interlocking quartz grains and mica scales, found principally in Brazil and North Carolina, and noted for its flexibility in thin slabs.
- jerry-built — built cheaply and flimsily.
- judgemental — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
- justiceable — Liable to trial in a court of justice.
- justiciable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- justifiable — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- kernel smut — a disease of sorghum and other grasses in which the grains are replaced by the black spores of a smut fungus, especially of the genera Tilletia and Ustilago.
- kettledrums — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
- kulturkreis — formerly, a complex of related cultural traits assumed to diffuse or radiate outward as a unit in concentric waves or circles.
- l'ouverture — Toussaint L'Ouverture.
- lack-luster — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
- languescent — becoming languid
- last minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
- last-minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- launderette — a self-service laundry having coin-operated washers, driers, etc.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- law student — sb who studies legal system
- league city — a town in S Texas.
- lecturelike — Resembling a lecture or some aspect of one.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- lees summit — a town in W Missouri.
- legacy duty — estate tax; inheritance tax
- legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- lens turret — a rotating device on a camera for bringing any of several lenses in front of the shutter.
- lenticulate — to impress lenticules on the surface of (film).
- lentiginous — of or relating to a lentigo.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- let through — to allow to pass (through)
- lethiferous — lethal.
- leucocratic — (of a rock) composed mainly of light-colored minerals.
- leucoplasts — Plural form of leucoplast.
- leukotomies — Plural form of leukotomy.