12-Letter Words Ending in L

Characterized by unsound thinking

Ex-President right and judicious or diverging from normality (wordplay)

Having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.maladaptive.

""ADJUSTMENT The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.""

AERONAUTIC

""ANNEXATION The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.""

""Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.""

Opposed to the power of the clergy

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

CULTURAL relating to culture

Good against malaria.

""Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.""

Running in a contrary direction.

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

Using the juxtaposition of opposites (rhetoric)

Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

Characterised by hope or ambition

Like those trying to succeed

Relating to hope, since religious and sensible

Absolutely huge (in a heavenly way!)

Stellar location with Mars shot

High, as inflationary prices

Two-hundredth anniversary

Long-delayed celebration.

Relating to a two-hundredth anniversary

""FUNCTIONAL Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.""

""MILLENNIAL Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness. as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.""

Mankind ergonomics. Environment

Firm of less importance gets chance

Happening by chance

Apparently randomly concurrent

""Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.""

Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Pertaining to conception.

""CONCESSION The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous. giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.""

""CONDUCTOR One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.""

Relating to conference.

Nature of autobiography (especially Rousseau's)

Booth in church finances loos being renovated

In which Higgins supplies a place for admission

Private fled in action, distressed

Inflicted on a (anagram) - private

Like T.S. Eliot's clerk

Joining; connecting.

""CONNECTION The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.""

Of or pertaining to a consistory.

Of music with more than one melody

Polyphonic

Singing voice wanting to hedge a bet with more than one melody

CONVECTION The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

Customary assembly with a learner

Customary; not 9 ac

The traditional way to gangster

""CONVERSION The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.""

""Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution. as, a correctional institution.""

Belonging to cosmogony.

English word

""Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle. as, the craniofacial angle.""

Of or associated with both the cranium and the sacrum.

CYBERNETIC

Belonging to declension.

Like this crossword

Go mad and get sectioned

Organised in units, go crazy

Go mad from division

POSITIONAL Of or pertaining to position.

Relating to development from a source or origin

Relating to the formation of a word from its root

""DIAGNOSTIC Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.""

Sort of gear - sort of equation

Distinguishing; type of gear, calculus

Gear found on the rear axle of cars

(Chemistry) a compound having two sites in the molecule that are highly reactive

""Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.""

DILATATION Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

""DISTORTION The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. as, the distortions of the face or body.""

""Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. dorsiventral.""

""From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. as, the dorsoventral axis.""

Growing or developing within cartilage; applied esp. to developing bone.

""Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles. as, endoskeletal muscles.""

Within or passing through the trachea: an endotracheal tube.

""Pl. enterococci (-k k s , -k k ) A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.""

Pl. enterostomies Surgical construction of an opening in the intestine through the abdominal wall.

Of or pertaining to ethnology.

""EXCAVATION The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.""

"". Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare.""

""Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.""

Data-based - inexpert male (anagram)

Tentative mixture - for example nitre

Based on untested ideas

EXPOSITION The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

""Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment.""

Located or occurring outside the cranium.

""FOUNDATION The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.""

Concerned with tracing a tree (wordplay)

Upset college again concerning family history

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

GEOBOTANIC

""The downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; opposed to geanticlinal. geanticlinal.""

GEOTECHNIC

One gets hammered, making a noise!

Bell-like instrument

Percussion instrument with metal bars

Pertaining to a country's rulers

Relating to ruling system

Type of intervention, frequently in strikes.

""Images the description, history, and analysis of symbolic art or artistic symbolism, especially that of the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Also called iconography . ; iconologist, n . ; iconological,""

""IMBIBITION The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the postmortem imbibition of poisons. as, the postmortem imbibition of poisons.""

INDICATION Act of pointing out or indicating.

""Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.""

""Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection.""

""INHALATION The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.""

""INNOVATION The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.""

INSECTICIDE An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder.

Piece of music without voices

Piece of music without vocals

Music with no vocals

Egghead uncle a little upset

Related to rational thought processes

Philosopher, for example.

CHANNEL to direct along a course

Altercations getting out of hand between New York and California, perhaps

FLUVIAL pertaining to a {river=n}

Period between Ice Ages

Of or pertaining to an internuncio.

""Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum. as, the interorbital septum.""

PLUVIAL a prolonged period of wet climate

STADIAL a substance which depends on the life of a glacier

Sitting in the intervening spaces

INTONATION A thundering; thunder.

Adjective (-al)

Within the cranium or skull.

""Open only to persons issued an invitation; -- of gatherings, usually sports events; as, an invitational tournament.as, an invitational tournament.""

""INVOCATION The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.""

INVOLUTION The act of involving or infolding.

Not rotatory; passing from one point to another by a movement other than rotation; said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yielding mass.

LEVITATION Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

""LIMITATION The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.""

LIMNOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.""

Running lengthwise

""MANAGEMENT The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.""

""MATURATION The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.""

METRONOMIC

MONOCULTURE

Obsessed with one thing

SINGLE-MINDED

MONSIGNORI

MOTIVATION The act or process of motivating.

MOTONEURON

Word with prefix multi-

Like many at the U.N.

Fluent in French, German and Italian, say

Concerned with routing ships

""Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.""

20th century music style

In a revived style from the past

Type of art, perhaps one form to one state

NEUROHUMOR

Of or pertaining to neurolgy.

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

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

""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.""

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

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

PHENOTYPIC

Of or pertaining to phonology.

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.""

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

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-al)

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

""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.""

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

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

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

PROTONEMATA

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

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

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)

""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.""

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

SPECIATION

STENOTHERM

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

""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.

Changing usual partner is weird

Turns up a real oddity - it's uncanny

Psychic upset usual partner

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.

SYNAPTOSOME

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

TEASPOONS teaspoon