11-letter words containing u, t, e, r
- legislature — 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.
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- lens turret — a rotating device on a camera for bringing any of several lenses in front of the shutter.
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- let through — to allow to pass (through)
- lethiferous — lethal.
- leucocratic — (of a rock) composed mainly of light-colored minerals.
- leukotriene — a lipid, C 20 H 30 O 3 , produced by white blood cells in an immune response to antigens, that contributes to allergic asthma and inflammatory reactions.
- light curve — a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- lion-hunter — a person who hunts lions, esp for sport
- literatured — (of a person) well educated and learned, esp in literature
- literatures — writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
- litter lout — a person who tends to drop refuse in public places
- litterateur — a literary person, especially a writer of literary works.
- lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.
- lucy stoner — a person who advocates the retention of the maiden name by married women. Compare Stone (def 5).
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- luoravetlan — Chukotian.
- luteotropic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- luteotropin — prolactin.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- magisterium — the authority and power of the church to teach religious truth.
- mantuamaker — A maker of women's clothes, especially dresses.
- manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- marguerites — Plural form of marguerite.
- mariculture — marine aquaculture.
- marquessate — The territory of a marquess, margrave or person of comparable rank.
- marquisates — Plural form of marquisate.
- marquisette — a lightweight open fabric of leno weave in cotton, rayon, silk, or nylon.
- masterfully — dominating; self-willed; imperious.
- masturbated — Simple past tense and past participle of masturbate.
- masturbates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of masturbate.
- matriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- mauretanian — an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.
- measure out — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measurement — the act of measuring.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- medium-term — The medium-term is the period of time which lasts a few months or years beyond the present time, in contrast with the short term or the long term.
- megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
- menstrually — In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
- menstruated — Simple past tense and past participle of menstruate.
- menstruates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of menstruate.
- mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.