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12-letter words containing u, n, a, l

  • juggling act — If you say that a situation is a juggling act, you mean that someone is trying to do two or more things at once, and that they are finding it difficult to do those things properly.
  • jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
  • julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
  • junior class — the penultimate class in high school or college
  • jus naturale — the rules and principles of law derived from the customs and legislation of Rome, as opposed to those derived from the customs of all nations (jus gentium) or from fundamental ideas of right and wrong implicit in the human mind (jus naturale)
  • kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
  • kluge around — (jargon)   To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
  • knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
  • knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
  • knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
  • ku klux klan — U.S. History. a secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.
  • labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • 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.
  • lactalbumins — Plural form of lactalbumin.
  • laguna beach — a town in S California.
  • laguna hills — a city in SW California.
  • lake lucerne — a lake in central Switzerland: fed and drained chiefly by the River Reuss. Area: 115 sq km (44 sq miles)
  • lake managua — a lake in W Nicaragua: drains into Lake Nicaragua by the Tipitapa River. Length: 61 km (38 miles). Width: about 26 km (16 miles)
  • lake turkana — a long narrow lake in E Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. Area: 7104 sq km (2743 sq miles)
  • land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
  • landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
  • lane closure — the closing of a lane on a motorway
  • langoustines — Plural form of langoustine.
  • languageless — without language or a language
  • langue d'oil — the Romance language of medieval northern France: developed into modern French.
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • languorously — characterized by languor; languid.
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
  • last but one — next to last
  • last honours — observances of respect at a funeral
  • latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
  • latin church — the Roman Catholic Church.
  • 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.
  • latitudinous — having latitude, scope, range, breadth, etc., especially of ideas, interests, interpretations, or the like: a Renaissance man of latitudinous outlook.
  • laudableness — The quality of being laudable; praiseworthiness; commendableness.
  • laughing gas — nitrous oxide.
  • launch party — a party that celebrates the launch of a new magazine, product, etc
  • launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
  • laundry list — a lengthy, especially random list of items: a laundry list of hoped-for presents; a laundry list of someone's crimes.
  • laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
  • laundry room — utility room
  • laundrywoman — laundress.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • lee kuan yew — 1923–2015, Singaporean statesman; prime minister of Singapore 1959–90, during which period his party's authoritarian rule was criticized but the country's economy progressed rapidly
  • lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
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