4-letter words containing l, r
- leer — to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
- lehr — an oven used to anneal glass.
- lere — (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) To teach; instruct; explain; inform.
- lerp — (uncountable) A sweet secretion, produced by the larvae of the family Psyllidae, that forms scales on eucalyptus leaves.
- liar — MIT Scheme
- lier — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lira — a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- lire — a coin and monetary unit of Italy until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centesimi. Abbreviation: L., Lit.
- lirk — (transitive, UK dialectal) To jerk.
- lirt — (transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; beguile.
- llyr — the father of Manawydan: corresponds to the Irish Ler.
- loer — an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: lo calorie.
- loir — a large species, Myoxus glis, of edible dormouse
- lord — a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
- lore — the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.
- lori — a feminine name
- lorn — forsaken, desolate, bereft, or forlorn.
- lory — any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- lour — lower2 .
- lram — Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music
- lrcp — Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians
- lrcs — Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons
- lrsc — Licentiate of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- ltr3 — Version three of LTR, by A. Parayre of Delegation Generale pour l'Armement, France. LTR3 was widely used by the French military and avionics companies.
- lure — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lurk — lurking
- lurt — (UK dialectal, Scotland) A lump of dirt or excrement; a turd.
- lurv — (informal) Alternative form of lurve.
- lyra — (anatomy, dated) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.
- lyre — a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of a soundbox made typically from a turtle shell, with two curved arms connected by a yoke from which strings are stretched to the body, used especially to accompany singing and recitation.
- marl — Geology. a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate, used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime.
- merl — the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- murl — to crumble or fragment
- ncrl — Software Writer's Language
- nirl — a lump or nodule
- nlrb — National Labor Relations Board: a US government agency which mediates disputes between management and trade unions
- nlri — network layer reachability information
- nurl — to make knurls or ridges on.
- nzlr — New Zealand Law Reports
- oral — uttered by the mouth; spoken: oral testimony.
- orel — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- orle — Heraldry. a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture. an arrangement in orle of small charges: azure, an orle of bezants.
- orlo — a plinth supporting the base of a column.
- orly — a suburb SE of Paris, France: international airport.
- parl — Parliament
- perl — (language, tool) A high-level programming language, started by Larry Wall in 1987 and developed as an open source project. It has an eclectic heritage, deriving from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, various Unix shell languages, Lisp, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Originally developed for Unix, it is now available for many platforms. Perl's elaborate support for regular expression matching and substitution has made it the language of choice for tasks involving string manipulation, whether for text or binary data. It is particularly popular for writing CGI scripts. The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written Perl code indecipherable to the uninitiated. The syntax is, however, really quite simple and powerful and, once the basics have been mastered, a joy to write. Perl's only primitive data type is the "scalar", which can hold a number, a string, the undefined value, or a typed reference. Perl's aggregate data types are arrays, which are ordered lists of scalars indexed by natural numbers, and hashes (or "associative arrays") which are unordered lists of scalars indexed by strings. A reference can point to a scalar, array, hash, function, or filehandle. Objects are implemented as references "blessed" with a class name. Strings in Perl are eight-bit clean, including nulls, and so can contain binary data. Unlike C but like most Lisp dialects, Perl internally and dynamically handles all memory allocation, garbage collection, and type coercion. Perl supports closures, recursive functions, symbols with either lexical scope or dynamic scope, nested data structures of arbitrary content and complexity (as lists or hashes of references), and packages (which can serve as classes, optionally inheriting methods from one or more other classes). There is ongoing work on threads, Unicode, exceptions, and backtracking. Perl program files can contain embedded documentation in POD (Plain Old Documentation), a simple markup language. The normal Perl distribution contains documentation for the language, as well as over a hundred modules (program libraries). Hundreds more are available from The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. Modules are themselves generally written in Perl, but can be implemented as interfaces to code in other languages, typically compiled C. The free availability of modules for almost any conceivable task, as well as the fact that Perl offers direct access to almost all system calls and places no arbitrary limits on data structure size or complexity, has led some to describe Perl, in a parody of a famous remark about lex, as the "Swiss Army chainsaw" of programming. The use of Perl has grown significantly since its adoption as the language of choice of many web developers. CGI interfaces and libraries for Perl exist for several platforms and Perl's speed and flexibility make it well suited for form processing and on-the-fly web page creation. Perl programs are generally stored as text source files, which are compiled into virtual machine code at run time; this, in combination with its rich variety of data types and its common use as a glue language, makes Perl somewhat hard to classify as either a "scripting language" or an "applications language" -- see Ousterhout's dichotomy. Perl programs are usually called "Perl scripts", if only for historical reasons. Version 5 was a major rewrite and enhancement of version 4, released sometime before November 1993. It added real data structures by way of "references", un-adorned subroutine calls, and method inheritance. The spelling "Perl" is preferred over the older "PERL" (even though some explain the language's name as originating in the acronym for "Practical Extraction and Report Language"). The program that interprets/compiles Perl code is called "perl", typically "/usr/local/bin/perl" or "/usr/bin/perl".
- pirl — Pattern Information Retrieval Language. A language for digraph manipulation, embeddable in Fortran or ALGOL, for IBM 7094.
- prml — Partial Response Maximum Likelihood
- purl — the action or sound of purling.
- rail — any of numerous birds of the family Rallidae, that have short wings, a narrow body, long toes, and a harsh cry and inhabit grasslands, forests, and marshes in most parts of the world.