12-letter words containing u, n, r, e, a, l
- interlobular — (anatomy) Between lobules.
- interlocular — having one or more locules.
- internuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- 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.
- intranuclear — existing or taking place within a nucleus.
- invulnerable — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- 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)
- kluge around — (jargon) To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge. Compare workaround.
- 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.
- lake lucerne — a lake in central Switzerland: fed and drained chiefly by the River Reuss. Area: 115 sq km (44 sq 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
- laser tuning — a technique for adjusting a laser's output frequency to within a specific range, especially in semiconductors.
- 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.
- launderettes — Plural form of launderette.
- 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.
- lenticularis — (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded lens shaped of cloud, often forming near mountains. Associated with cirrocumulus, and altocumulus, and sometimes stratocumulus genera.
- lenticularly — in a lenticular manner
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- lingua geral — a lingua franca based on Tupi and spoken in the Amazon basin of South America.
- linux loader — (operating system) (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
- macronuclear — Of or pertaining to a macronucleus.
- macronucleus — the larger of the two types of nuclei occurring in ciliate protozoans, having a multiple set of chromosomes and functioning in cell metabolism and protein synthesis.
- malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
- maneuverable — capable of being steered or directed; easy to maneuver: The polyethylene craft remains as durable and maneuverable as any conventional high-performance kayak.
- mangelwurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.