12-letter words containing u, l, t, e, r, i
- gutturalized — pronounced with guttural coarticulation.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- horticulture — the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- illiterature — (archaic) Lack of learning; illiteracy.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- inaccurately — In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
- inarticulate — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- infrequently — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inscrutables — Plural form of inscrutable.
- instructible — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
- instrumental — serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
- interclusion — the act of intercluding
- intercluster — relating to, occurring, or situated between two or more clusters
- interculture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- interlingual — pertaining to or using two or more languages: an interlingual dictionary.
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- interlocuter — A person who participates in a conversation.
- interlocutor — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- internucleon — internuclear
- internuncial — serving to announce or connect.
- internuptial — Of, or related to intermarriage.
- interpleural — situated between the pleurae
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intertextual — the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other: the intertextuality between two novels with the same setting.
- intertubular — Between tubes or tubules.
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irrebuttable — incapable of being rebutted or refuted.
- irregularity — the quality or state of being irregular.
- irresolutely — In an irresolute or wavering manner.
- irresolution — lack of resolution; lack of decision or purpose; vacillation.
- jocularities — the state or quality of being jocular.
- joliot-curie — Irène [ee-ren] /iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), (Irène Curie) 1897–1956, French nuclear physicist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 (daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie).
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- lace-curtain — characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latin square — a square array of numbers, letters, etc., in which each item appears exactly once in each row and column: used in statistical analysis.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.