11-letter words containing lar
- polar orbit — a spacecraft orbit that passes over, or close to, the geographic poles of the earth or some other celestial body.
- polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
- polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
- polarizable — to cause polarization in.
- polarograph — a device for analysing ions in solution by using an electrolytic cell with a very small cathode
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- post-larval — of, relating to, or in the form of a larva.
- preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
- prepatellar — describing a bursa between the skin of the knee and the patella
- proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
- protocolary — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- provascular — of or relating to procambium
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- radiolarian — any minute, marine protozoan of the class Radiolaria, or, in some classification schemes, the superclass Actinopoda, having an amebalike body with radiating, filamentous pseudopodia and a usually elaborate outer skeleton.
- rectangular — shaped like a rectangle.
- regular lay — a right-handed lay, as of a plain-laid rope.
- root cellar — a cellar, partially or wholly underground and usually covered with dirt, where root crops and other vegetables are stored.
- salt cellar — a shaker or dish for salt.
- salt-cellar — a shaker or dish for salt.
- sand dollar — any of various flat, disklike sea urchins, as Mellita testudinata or Echinarachnius parma, that live on sandy bottoms off the coasts of the U.S.
- santa clara — a city in central Cuba.
- scalariform — ladderlike.
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
- secularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- sertularian — a type of hydroid that forms stiff, feathery colonies in which the cups holding the zooids are sessile.
- sigillarian — resembling the fossilized, tree-like plants of the genus Sigillaria
- singularism — any philosophy that explains phenomena from a single principle
- singularist — someone who advocates singularism
- singularity — the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
- singularize — to make singular.
- smoke alarm — A smoke alarm or a smoke detector is a device fixed to the ceiling of a room which makes a loud noise if there is smoke in the air, to warn people.
- solar cells — a photovoltaic cell that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
- solar cycle — the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
- solar flare — flare (def 22).
- solar house — a house designed to absorb and store solar heat.
- solar month — month (def 4).
- solar panel — a bank of solar cells.
- solar power — energy generated by the sun
- solar still — an apparatus that uses solar radiation to distill salt or brackish water to produce drinkable water.
- solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- solar-storm — a temporary disturbance of the earth's magnetic field, induced by radiation and streams of charged particles from the sun.
- solarimeter — an instrument for measuring solar radiation.
- somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- stellarator — an experimental plasma-physics device in which magnetic fields confine the plasma within a tube shaped like a figure eight.
- still alarm — a burglar alarm, fire alarm, or the like, that is activated silently and transmits a warning signal, usually by telephone.
- subaxillary — situated or placed beneath an axil.