13-letter words containing a, l, u
- albizu campos — Pedro [pe-th raw] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1964, Puerto Rican political leader.
- albumen paper — a printing paper coated with albumen, salt, and citric acid and sensitized with silver nitrate, used c1850–80.
- albumen plate — a flexible zinc or aluminum printing plate coated with a photosensitive compound, used in offset printing of usually fewer than 50,000 copies.
- albumin color — (in textile printing) a color fixed to a fabric by an albuminous mordant.
- alcohol abuse — the excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks
- alfred austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
- all-consuming — taking up all of someone's time and attention
- all-inclusive — All-inclusive is used to indicate that a price, especially the price of a holiday, includes all the charges and all the services offered.
- allochthonous — (of rocks, deposits, etc) found in a place other than where they or their constituents were formed
- allowable cut — the amount of a natural resource, as grain or oil, that may be harvested or taken from the earth within a specified period, as limited by law for conservation.
- alluvial cone — a steep, narrow, cone-shaped alluvial fan formed where a swift stream suddenly slows down, as where an upland stream emerges abruptly into a level plain
- allyl sulfide — a colorless or pale yellow, water-insoluble liquid, C 6 H 10 S, having a garlicky odor, used chiefly in flavoring.
- allylthiourea — thiosinamine.
- alonzo church — (person) A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambda-calculus and posited a version of the Church-Turing thesis.
- alpha aquilae — Altair
- alpha aurigae — Capella
- alphabet soup — a confusing series of acronyms or abbreviations
- alphanumerics — Plural form of alphanumeric.
- alpine chough — a bird of the crow family, Pyrrocorax graculus, found in the highest mountain regions of S Europe and central Asia, with a yellow bill, black plumage, and red legs
- alpine tundra — a tundra that is treeless because of high elevation rather than high latitude.
- althorp house — a mansion in Northamptonshire: seat of the Earls Spencer since 1508; originally a medieval house; altered (1787) to its present neoclassical style by Henry Holland. Diana, Princess of Wales is buried on Round Oval Island in the centre of the ornamental lake in Althorp Park
- altitude dial — an adjustable sundial utilizing the altitude of the sun, at a given latitude and time of year, as a means of telling the time.
- aluminiferous — containing or yielding aluminium or alumina
- aluminography — algraphy.
- aluminothermy — a process for reducing metallic oxides using finely divided aluminium powder. The mixture of aluminium and the oxide is ignited, causing the aluminium to be oxidized and the metal oxide to be reduced to the metal
- aluminum book — (publication) Due to a technical screwup some printings of the second edition are actually what the author calls "yucky green". See also book titles.
- aluminum foil — silver paper
- aluminum soap — any of the salts formed by higher carboxylic acids and aluminum, as aluminum oleate, aluminum palmitate, and aluminum stearate.
- alumosilicate — (inorganic chemistry) The anion [AlSiO4]-1.
- ambisexuality — the state of being ambisexual
- american curl — a breed of slender cat with curled-back ears and a plumed tail
- ammonium salt — any salt containing the NH 4 + ion, formed by the neutralization of ammonium hydroxide by an acid.
- amphiblastula — the free-swimming larva of certain sponges, which consists of a hollow spherical mass of cells some of which have flagella
- amphithalamus — (in an ancient Greek house) a room adjoining the thalamus.
- amundsen gulf — a gulf in the Beaufort Sea in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
- amygdalaceous — similar to or derived from the almond
- anachronously — in an anachronous manner
- analogousness — The quality of being analogous.
- androgynously — In an androgynous manner.
- anencephalous — congenital absence of part or all of the brain.
- angular house — any of the four astrological houses that begin at the angles: the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth houses, that correspond, respectively, to self, home, others, and career.
- anisophyllous — having leaves of different shapes or sizes.
- annual report — a report presented by the directors of a company to its shareholders each year, containing the profit-and-loss account, the balance sheet, and details of the past year's activity
- annular clock — a clock in the form of a vase, ball, etc., having the hours painted on a ring rotating beneath a pointer.
- annular space — An annular space is a ring-shaped space outside the drillpipe, through which mud and cuttings are removed.
- antepenultima — (poetry) The last syllable of a word except two; an antepenult.
- anti-burglary — the felony of breaking into and entering the house of another at night with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day.
- anti-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- anti-populism — (lowercase) any of various, often antiestablishment or anti-intellectual political movements or philosophies that offer unorthodox solutions or policies and appeal to the common person rather than according with traditional party or partisan ideologies.
- anticellulite — acting against cellulite