13-letter words containing a, c, r, u
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
- inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
- instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- intercellular — situated between or among cells.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- intercultural — pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures: intercultural exchanges in music and art.
- interjaculate — (transitive) To ejaculate (a remark, etc.) parenthetically.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
- intracapsular — Within a capsule.
- intracellular — within a cell or cells.
- intracultural — Within a single culture.
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- intratelluric — Geology. located in, taking place in, or resulting from action beneath the lithosphere.
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- jacquard card — (in a Jacquard loom) one of a series of perforated cards that control the manipulation of the warp threads and determine the intricate pattern woven on the material.
- jacquard loom — a loom for producing elaborate designs in an intricate weave (Jacquard weave) constructed from a variety of basic weaves.
- japan current — a warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the E coast of Japan towards the North Pacific
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- julius caesar — Gaius Julius Caesar.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
- labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
- lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- lucifer match — friction match.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- lunar caustic — silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.