12-Letter Words Ending in L

BACTERIAL Of or pertaining to bacteria.

""CLASSICAL Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.""

Guarded in speech

Guarded, but without being locked up (wordplay)

On the fence, not a prison sentence (wordplay)

CUSTODIAL Relating to custody or guardianship.

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

""EMOTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. as, an emotional nature.""

""EMPIRICAL Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.""

Suspect online assent is unimportant

Not totally necessary

Not absolutely necessary

""FICTIONAL Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.""

FINANCIAL Pertaining to finance.

""IDENTICAL The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. as, the identical person or thing.""

""MERCURIAL Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.""

Inflected form of MICROBIAL Inflected form of MICROBE a microscopic organism

""MUNICIPAL Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers. as, municipal rights; municipal officers.""

Inflected form of NUMERICAL Inflected form of NUMERIC a {numeral=n}

Not political. Opposite of political.political.

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

""Inflected form of SPHERICAL Inflected form of SPHERIC having the form of a sphere, also SPHERAL""

Inflected form of STEROIDAL Inflected form of STEROID a type of chemical compound

""Not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.as, nontechnical aspects of the job; nontechnical training. Opposite of technical.""

""UNIVERSAL Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; allreaching; allpervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice. as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.""

Relating to one's job or profession

Rehabilitation via practical activities

To do with work

OLIGARCHIC

""OPPOSITION The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.""

Relating to the description of mountains

Of or pertaining to osteology.

A civil rector sadly becoming too judgmental

Casanova loses the head with serious type that's hard to please

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Adjective (-al)

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Of or pertaining to petrology.

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

PHENOTYPIC

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

Of or pertaining to phonology.

English word

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

""POSSESSION The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.""

Adjective (-ical)

""Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.""

(Of research) done after a second degree

Type of study after getting an advanced degree (2 words)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective (-al)

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

""Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.""

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

""MENSTRUAL Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

""REHEARSAL The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.""

Presbyterian.

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Hymn with a line that comes after parade

Hymn used during entry or exit in church

Paid arranger perhaps to accept key change to create moving hymn

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

Characteristic of an academic

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

PROTONEMATA

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

""Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa. Illust. of Heliozoa.""

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

Match in knockout tournament

Match between two sides in the last eight of knockout competition

Of a lustrum

Happening once every five years

Recurring every five years

RADIOLOGIC

Of drugs taken for enjoyment

(Of drugs) used for kicks

Like some drugs

""FLECTIONAL Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.""

Note: reptilia evolved like parrots

""REPUTATION The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.""

Adjective (-al)

""Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.""

""Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.as, saccharoidal limestone.""

""SALUTATION The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting.""

Preoccupied with excrement

Same as Schismatic. Schismatic.

SCHISTOSOME

""A white odorless barbiturate, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used in the form of its sodium salt as a sedative and hypnotic.""

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

""Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. as, a semiofficial statement.""

""Same as Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.Semeiography, Semeiology, Semeiological.""

Warm, as a climate

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

""Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science.""

SPECIATION

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

SPERMATOZOA

English word

STENOTHERM

""Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. as, the sternocostal cartilages.""

""A sterol, C 29 H 48 O, obtained from soybeans or Calabar beans.""

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

""PRINCIPAL Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.""

Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive.

Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

Changing usual partner is weird

Turns up a real oddity - it's uncanny

Psychic upset usual partner

Adjective (-al)

Spare plastic potty

Additional to what is required

Flexible in the mind, providing what's missing

Being above the threshold of consciousness or of sensation. Used of stimuli.

Located above the orbit of the eye: the supraorbital ridge.

SYNAPTOSOME

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

Verbally superfluous

Tight circle is methodical in giving too much repeat information

TEASPOONS teaspoon

""Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.""

""Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.""

Like Blavatsky's society

""TIMOCRATIC Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.""

Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes.

In process of change

In process of changing

In the process of change

NATURAL a type of musical note

""The science of the mechanisms of friction, lubrication, and wear of interacting surfaces that are in relative motion.""

""Consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs.""

Of or pertaining to a triphthong; consisting of three vowel sounds pronounced together in a single syllable.

""TROCHANTER One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter. great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.""

Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.

CAREFUL {cautious=adj}

LIBERAL one who is open to ideas of progress or reform

RADICAL a group of atoms that act as a unit in chemical compounds

""COMMERCIAL Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.""

""ECOLOGICAL of or pertaining to ecology; as, an ecological disaster.as, an ecological disaster.""

Wasteful of money

Lossmaking

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

HYSTERICAL Of or pertaining to hysteria.

""RHETORICAL Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.""

""SCRIPTURAL Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine. as, a scriptural doctrine.""

Not achieving one's aim

Not accomplishing aim

Not achieving

""Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal. as, the urinogenital canal.""

""VEGETATION The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.""

Both ventral and medial; extending toward the ventral surface and the median line.

""Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial.""

Of or pertaining to viticulture.

North American goatsucker

North American nightjar

Nocturnal bird with an onomatopoeic name

""The domestication, breeding, and improvement of animals; the technology of animal husbandry.""