13-letter words containing u, r, e, o, t, l
- interlocution — conversation; dialogue.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interlunation — the interlunar period.
- interneuronal — (neurology) Between neurons.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- intervolution — (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
- leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
- libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
- louis pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lump together — If a number of different people or things are lumped together, they are considered as a group rather than separately.
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
- meritoriously — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- micronucleate — having a micronucleus.
- mother liquor — the portion of a solution remaining after crystallization of its important component.
- mottled umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Erannis defoliaria, whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
- multi-sensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multicoloured — Alternative spelling of multicolored.
- multiemployer — Of or pertaining to more than one employer.