11-letter words containing u, l, o, t
- lateritious — of the color of brick; brick-red.
- latrocinium — highway robbery
- laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
- launch into — begin enthusiastically
- laundromats — Plural form of laundromat.
- lautreamont — Comte de (Isidore Lucien Ducasse) 1846–70, French poet, born in Uruguay.
- lenat, doug — Doug Lenat
- 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.
- leukotriene — a lipid, C 20 H 30 O 3 , produced by white blood cells in an immune response to antigens, that contributes to allergic asthma and inflammatory reactions.
- ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
- lighthouses — Plural form of lighthouse.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lion-hunter — a person who hunts lions, esp for sport
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
- liquidators — Plural form of liquidator.
- lithodomous — living in rock or stone
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- lithotomous — of or relating to the surgical removal of a stone from the bladder
- litigatious — (rare) litigious.
- litigiously — In a litigious manner.
- litter lout — a person who tends to drop refuse in public places
- lockout box — Television. lockbox (def 3).
- locust bean — carob.
- 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.
- longinquity — long distance; remoteness
- loony tunes — Informal. loony1 .
- loony-tunes — Informal. loony1 .
- lose out on — to fail to secure or make use of
- lotus 1-2-3 — (tool, product) A spreadsheet for MS-DOS from Lotus Development Corporation. It can be programmed using "macros" and comes with a separate program to produce graphs and charts but this cannot be run at the same time as the spreadsheet. It has keyboard-driven pop-up menus as well as one-key commands, making it fast to operate. Lotus 1-2-3 supported EGA and later VGA graphics. Early versions used the filename extension "WK1". Version: 4. Lotus 1-2-3 has been the subject of several user interface copyright court cases in the US. 1-2-3's successor, Symphony, had simultaneous update of spreadsheet, graph and word processor windows.
- lotus notes — A group of application programs from Lotus Development Corporation which allows organisations to share documents and exchange electronic mail messages. Notes supports replication.
- 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.
- loudmouthed — loud, gossipy, or indiscreet; vociferous.
- lounge suit — a man's suit appropriate for informal occasions.
- loutishness — The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
- low-country — Often, Low-Country. of or relating to the Low Countries.
- low-quality — substandard; of inferior quality: It’s hard to make a delicious dish when you start with low-quality ingredients. Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.
- 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