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13-letter words containing a, e

  • 's gravenhage — The Hague
  • a (whole) lot — a great deal; very much
  • a bitter pill — If a person or group has to accept a failure or an unpleasant piece of news, you can say that it was a bitter pill or a bitter pill to swallow.
  • a clean slate — If you start with a clean slate, you do not take account of previous mistakes or failures and make a fresh start.
  • a clean sweep — If you make a clean sweep of something such as a series of games or tournaments, you win them all.
  • a close shave — If you describe a situation as a close shave, you mean that there was nearly an accident or a disaster but it was avoided.
  • a closed book — If you say that someone or something is a closed book, you mean that you do not know anything about them.
  • a dead ringer — If you say that one person is a ringer or a dead ringer for another, you mean that they look exactly like each other.
  • a dirty shame — a very unfortunate circumstance
  • a hole in one — If you get a hole in one in golf, you get the golf ball into the hole with a single stroke.
  • a jot/one jot — Expressions such as a jot, one jot, not a jot are used to emphasize negative statements.
  • a little bird — a (supposedly) unknown informant
  • a mixed bunch — if you say that a group of people or things is a mixed bunch, you mean that they are varied in style, character, quality, etc
  • a square meal — If you have a square meal, you have a large healthy meal.
  • a stout heart — courage; resolution
  • a sweet tooth — If you have a sweet tooth, you like sweet food very much.
  • a tangled web — If you refer to a situation as a tangled web, you are emphasizing that it is very confused.
  • a votre sante — to your health
  • a-dolls-house — a play (1879) by Henrik Ibsen.
  • a/one hell of — Some people use a hell of or one hell of to emphasize that something is very good, very bad, or very big.
  • aaron's beard — rose of Sharon (def 2).
  • aaron's-beard — rose of Sharon (def 2).
  • abalone shell — the shell of the abalone mollusc, used for ornament or decoration
  • abandonedness — The state or quality of being abandoned.
  • abbey theatre — an influential theatre in Dublin (opened 1904): associated with it were Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, and O'Casey. It was destroyed by fire in 1951 but was rebuilt; it reopened in 1966
  • abbreviations — a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, as Dr. for Doctor, U.S. for United States, lb. for pound.
  • abdul-mejid i — 1823–61, sultan of Turkey 1839–61 (brother of Abdul-Aziz).
  • abelian group — a group the defined binary operation of which is commutative: if a and b are members of an Abelian group then ab = ba
  • aberdeenshire — a council area and historical county of N Scotland, on the North Sea: became part of Grampian Region in 1975 but reinstated as an independent unitary authority (with adjusted borders) in 1996: rises to the Grampian and Cairngorm Mountains in the SW: chiefly agricultural (esp sheep and stock raising). Administrative centre: Aberdeen. Pop: 229 330 (2003 est). Area 6319 sq km (2439 sq miles)
  • abiogenically — in a way that does not involve living organisms
  • abnormalities — an abnormal condition, state, or quality; irregularity; deviation.
  • abortifacient — causing abortion
  • above oneself — presumptuous or conceited
  • above the law — If you accuse someone of thinking they are above the law, you criticize them for thinking that they are so clever or important that they do not need to obey the law.
  • absent-minded — Someone who is absent-minded forgets things or does not pay attention to what they are doing, often because they are thinking about something else.
  • absentee rate — the percentage of people who are absent each day from a school or company
  • absentee vote — a vote cast in advance by a voter who will be unable to go to the polling place on polling day
  • absolute path — (file system)   A path relative to the root directory. Its first character must be the pathname separator.
  • absolute unit — a unit of measurement forming part of the electromagnetic cgs system, such as an abampere or abcoulomb
  • absolute veto — a vote, which cannot be overturned, to block a decision
  • absolute zero — Absolute zero is a theoretical temperature that is thought to be the lowest possible temperature.
  • absorbed dose — the amount of energy transferred by nuclear or ionizing radiation to a unit mass of absorbing material
  • absquatulated — Simple past tense and past participle of absquatulate.
  • abstentionism — the policy of withholding one's vote or refusing to participate in some other aspect of the political process
  • abstentionist — a person who practises or advocates abstention or abstentionism
  • abundant year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • abyssopelagic — referring to or occurring in the region of deep water above the floor of the ocean
  • acacia avenue — any middle-class suburban street.
  • academic dean — a high-ranking academic official who oversees all the major academic operations including curriculum, workloads, and faculty budgets
  • academic gown — a loose garment like a very light coat with wide sleeves worn over a person's outer clothes and indicating academic status

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