13-letter words containing a, g, e, n, t
- lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
- leading light — an important or influential person: a leading light of the community.
- leaf gelatine — gelatine in the form of thin sheets
- leafleteering — The printing and distribution of leaflets, especially as propaganda.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- legionary ant — army ant
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- lift a finger — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
- light reading — reading which is not considered too demanding or intellectual
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- line integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given curve approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the length of the arcs in the partition times the value of the function at some point on each arc.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
- losing streak — a succession of losses or defeats
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- love triangle — relationship between three people
- love-entangle — the stonecrop, Sedum acre.
- macro-segment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magic lantern — a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
- magnanimities — Plural form of magnanimity.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetic axis — the straight line joining the two poles of a magnet, as the poles of the earth
- magnetic core — Computers. core1 (def 12a).
- magnetic disk — Also called disk, hard disk. a rigid disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
- magnetic head — head (def 33).
- magnetic lens — Physics. an electron lens using magnetic fields for focusing an electron beam.
- magnetic mine — an underwater mine set off by any disturbance of its magnetic field, as by the metal hull of a ship.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- magnetic star — a star having a strong magnetic field.
- magnetic tape — strip sensitive to electromagnets
- magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- magnetic-tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- magnetisation — Alternative spelling of magnetization.
- magnetization — the process of magnetizing or the state of being magnetized.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetometers — Plural form of magnetometer.
- magnetometric — Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, 'magnetometric' instruments; 'magnetometric' measurements.
- magnetomotive — (physics) capable of producing magnetic flux.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- magnetosheath — the region between the magnetopause of the earth or of some other planet and the shock front caused by the solar wind.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- magnetostatic — Of or pertaining to magnetostatics.