13-letter words containing u, r, l, e
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- irreligiously — In an irreligious fashion.
- january sales — sales held after Christmas to encourage customers back to the shops
- jebel ed druz — a mountainous region in S Syria: inhabited by Druses. About 2700 sq. mi. (6995 sq. km).
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- judges' rules — (in English law, formerly) a set of rules, not legally binding, governing the behaviour of police towards suspects, as in administering a caution to a person under arrest
- julius caesar — Gaius Julius Caesar.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- kettledrummer — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- knuckle under — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
- knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- 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.
- lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- language arts — study of reading and writing
- laser surgery — the surgical use of lasers.
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- latin quarter — the quarter of Paris on the south side of the Seine, especially frequented for centuries by students, writers, and artists.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
- laurel family — the plant family Lauraceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees having simple, leathery leaves, aromatic bark and foliage, clusters of small green or yellow flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or drupe, and including the avocado, bay, laurels of the genera Laurus and Umbellularia, sassafras, spicebush (Lindera benzoin), and the trees that yield camphor and cinnamon.
- laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
- lavender-blue — coloured between blue and pale or light bluish-purple to a very pale violet colour
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- least squares — a method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- leisureliness — The property of being leisurely.
- 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.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- 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.
- letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
- letzeburgesch — a Germanic dialect that is the native language of most of the people of Luxembourg.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
- lever tumbler — a flat metal tumbler in a lock.
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.