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14-letter words containing u, t, e, r

  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • khirbet qumran — an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.
  • knuckle-duster — brass knuckles.
  • knuckledusters — Plural form of knuckleduster.
  • krolewska huta — former name of Chorzów.
  • laetare sunday — the fourth Sunday of Lent when the introit begins with “ Laetare Jerusalem ” (Rejoice ye, Jerusalem).
  • lanterne rouge — a notional award given to the competitor who finishes last in a cycle race
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
  • laurent series — a power series in which the negative as well as the positive powers appear.
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
  • leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
  • leather-lunged — speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods: The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.
  • lecture course — a series of lectures on a particular subject
  • leisure centre — A leisure centre is a large public building containing different facilities for leisure activities, such as a sports hall, a swimming pool, and rooms for meetings.
  • leisure retail — Leisure retail is used to refer to retail outlets that attract shoppers to spend some of their free time browsing and shopping.
  • lesser omentum — an omentum attached to the stomach, part of the duodenum, and part of the liver and supporting the hepatic vessels.
  • letter quality — of or producing printed characters similar in quality and clarity to typewritten characters
  • letter-quality — (of computer printers and their output) pertaining to an appearance equal in legibility and resolution to copy typed on an electric typewriter: A letter-quality printer produces sharper copy than a dot-matrix model.
  • leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light-coloured — having a light colour
  • liquid protein — an amino acid hydrosol used in weight-reduction programs as a substitute for all or some meals: generally regarded as hazardous to health because of low nutritional content and recommended for controlled use only under medical supervision.
  • liquiritigenin — (organic compound) A flavanone found in a variety of plants including liquorice.
  • little russian — former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • loan guarantee — an undertaking by a government to pay a debt if the borrower defaults
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • louis quatorze — noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France in the late 17th century, characterized by increasingly classicizing tendencies, and by an emphasis on dignity rather than comfort.
  • low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
  • lower tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 2690 km (1670 miles) long
  • lugger topsail — a fore-and-aft topsail used above a lugsail.
  • lunar distance — the observed angle between the moon and another celestial body.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
  • macrostructure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
  • make a fortune — win, earn a vast amount of money
  • make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
  • malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
  • manslaughterer — (legal) Someone who commits manslaughter.
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • march fracture — a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers (march fracture)
  • mare tyrrhenum — (Tyrrhenian Sea) an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
  • master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
  • master butcher — a butcher who is fully qualified to practise his trade and to train others in it
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