13-letter words containing a, l, n, i, t, e
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irrationalise — Alt form irrationalize.
- irrationalize — to make or cause to be irrational.
- irritableness — Quality of being irritable.
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- italian aster — a composite plant, Aster amellus, of Eurasia, having clustered, purple flower heads.
- italian bread — a crusty, yeast-raised bread made without shortening and unsweetened, usually baked in long, thick loaves with tapered ends.
- jail sentence — a term of imprisonment imposed by a court
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- kindheartedly — In a kindhearted manner.
- kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- kiss-and-tell — revealing sth private for money
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laevorotation — a rotation to the left
- lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
- landfill site — also landfill
- landgraviates — Plural form of landgraviate.
- landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
- lantern slide — a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
- laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
- late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
- lateen-rigged — having lateen sails.
- latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
- lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
- lateroversion — abnormal lateral displacement of a bodily organ or part, esp of the uterus
- latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- latin quarter — the quarter of Paris on the south side of the Seine, especially frequented for centuries by students, writers, and artists.
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- 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.
- least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- legionary ant — army ant
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).