13-letter words containing l, a, r, o
- alcoholometer — an instrument, such as a specially calibrated hydrometer, for determining the percentage of alcohol in a liquid
- alcoholometry — the process of measuring the concentration of alcohol in a liquid, such as in blood or a liquor
- aldosteronism — high blood pressure caused by excess aldosterone in the blood and urine
- alectryomancy — an ancient form of divination, using a rooster to select grains of food placed on letters of the alphabet.
- aleksandropol — a former name of Gumri.
- aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- all manner of — If you refer to all manner of objects or people, you are talking about objects or people of many different kinds.
- all over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- all-important — crucial; vital
- allegorically — consisting of or pertaining to allegory; of the nature of or containing allgegory; figurative: an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning.
- allelomorphic — relating to alleles
- alligator gar — a large, heavily scaled fish, Lepisosteus spatula, with an elongated body and long snout, found mainly in shallow weedy fresh water in the southeastern U.S.
- alligatorfish — a slender marine fish, Aspidophoroides monopterygius, of Atlantic seas, having overlapping plates covering the body.
- alliterations — Plural form of alliteration.
- allochromatic — Physical Chemistry. pertaining to or having photochemical properties resulting from an impurity or from exposure to radiation.
- allotriomorph — (geology) A mineral that did not develop its otherwise typical external crystal form because of late crystallization between earlier formed crystals, typical of matrix minerals in rapidly crystallizing volcanic lavas and shallow igneous intrusions.
- allotriophagy — (rare) Having food cravings that are different from the expected or the norm.
- allylthiourea — thiosinamine.
- alongshoreman — a person employed to load and unload ships
- alonzo church — (person) A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambda-calculus and posited a version of the Church-Turing thesis.
- alpha blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the alpha receptors.
- alpha orionis — Betelgeuse
- alpha scorpii — Antares
- alpha-blocker — any of a class of drugs that prevent the stimulation of alpha adrenoceptors, a type of receptor in the sympathetic nervous system, by adrenaline and noradrenaline and that therefore cause widening of blood vessels: used in the treatment of high blood pressure and prostatic hyperplasia
- alphabetiform — having similarities to letters of the alphabet
- alsike clover — a European clover, Trifolium hybridum, having pink flowers, grown in the U.S. for forage.
- alstroemerias — Plural form of alstroemeria.
- altered chord — a chord in which one or more notes are chromatically changed by the introduction of accidentals
- althorp house — a mansion in Northamptonshire: seat of the Earls Spencer since 1508; originally a medieval house; altered (1787) to its present neoclassical style by Henry Holland. Diana, Princess of Wales is buried on Round Oval Island in the centre of the ornamental lake in Althorp Park
- aluminiferous — containing or yielding aluminium or alumina
- aluminography — algraphy.
- aluminothermy — a process for reducing metallic oxides using finely divided aluminium powder. The mixture of aluminium and the oxide is ignited, causing the aluminium to be oxidized and the metal oxide to be reduced to the metal
- alveolar arch — the part of the upper or lower jawbone in which the teeth are set.
- ambassadorial — Ambassadorial means belonging or relating to an ambassador.
- american aloe — century plant
- amino radical — the univalent group, −NH 2 .
- aminotriazole — a white, crystalline, soluble powder, NHNC(NH2)NCH, used for killing weeds or other undesired vegetation: a carcinogen
- amphiprostyle — (esp of a classical temple) having a set of columns at both ends but not at the sides
- amplificatory — of the nature of enlargement or extension, as of a statement, narrative, etc.
- anachronously — in an anachronous manner
- anaerobically — (of an organism or tissue) living in the absence of air or free oxygen.
- anaphorically — referring back to or substituting for a preceding word or group of words: anaphoric reference.
- andersonville — town in SW central Ga.: site of a Confederate prison in the Civil War
- androgynously — In an androgynous manner.
- angle of roll — the acute angle between the lateral axis of an aircraft or spacecraft and a horizontal plane.
- angular house — any of the four astrological houses that begin at the angles: the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth houses, that correspond, respectively, to self, home, others, and career.
- annual report — a report presented by the directors of a company to its shareholders each year, containing the profit-and-loss account, the balance sheet, and details of the past year's activity
- annular clock — a clock in the form of a vase, ball, etc., having the hours painted on a ring rotating beneath a pointer.
- another place — the other House of Parliament (used in the House of Commons to refer to the House of Lords and vice versa)
- anterolateral — Both anterior and lateral.