12-letter words containing u, r, l
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- lecture hall — conference room
- lecture room — conference hall
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- legislatures — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- leiotrichous — Having smooth hair.
- leisure home — a house for use on weekends, vacations, or the like.
- leisure suit — a man's casual suit, consisting of trousers and a matching jacket styled like a shirt, often made in pastel colors.
- leisure time — free time
- lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
- 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
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- leonardesque — of, relating to, or suggesting Leonardo da Vinci or the style of his paintings.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- leptospermum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Leptospermum, of the myrtle family, native to Australia and adjacent areas and often cultivated as ornamentals in milder climates.
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- lieutenantry — the post or commission of a lieutenant
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- ligurian sea — a part of the Mediterranean between Corsica and the NW coast of Italy.
- lillibullero — a part of the refrain to a song deriding the Irish Roman Catholics, popular in England during and after the revolution of 1688.
- 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.
- liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
- liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
- liquor store — off-licence, shop selling alcohol
- litholatrous — of or relating to the worship of stones
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- litterateurs — Plural form of litterateur.
- little hours — the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, and nones in the divine office
- liturgically — of or relating to formal public worship or liturgies.
- liturgiology — liturgics.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
- lobular pump — a blower or pump displacing air or liquid by means of rotors having meshing lobes that act as a seal at their place of mesh.