13-letter words containing a, m, l
- inframarginal — below the margin; submarginal.
- inimitability — incapable of being imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; matchless.
- initial rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
- instrumentals — Plural form of instrumental.
- intemperately — given to or characterized by excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- interfamilial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
- interlacement — to cross one another, typically passing alternately over and under, as if woven together; intertwine: Their hands interlaced.
- interlaminate — to interlay or lay between laminae; interstratify.
- intermarginal — occurring or situated between two margins
- intermetallic — (inorganic chemistry) of, relating to, acting between, or comprising two or more metals.
- intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- intertemporal — Describing any relationship between past, present and future events or conditions.
- interterminal — occurring or existing between, or travelling between, transport terminals
- intradermally — within the dermis.
- intramarginal — existing or occurring within a margin or limit.
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- invisible man — a novel (1897) by H.G. Wells.
- irrationalism — irrationality in thought or action.
- irreclaimable — incapable of being reclaimed or rehabilitated: an irreclaimable swamp; irreclaimable offenders.
- irreclaimably — In an irreclaimable manner.
- irredeemables — undated government or debenture stock
- islamic state — an Islamist terrorist organization, formed in the early 21st century, whose aim is to create a caliphate in the Middle East and N Africa
- islamofascism — an ideology promoted by some Islamists, the aims of which are to establish Islamic orthodoxy and to resist western secularism
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isosmotically — With the same osmotic pressure.
- jack mackerel — a mackerellike food fish, Trachurus symmetricus, of Pacific coastal waters of the U.S.
- jacquard loom — a loom for producing elaborate designs in an intricate weave (Jacquard weave) constructed from a variety of basic weaves.
- james douglas — Sir James ("the Black Douglas") 1286–1330, Scottish military leader.
- james gosling — (person) The software engineer who wrote GOSMACS, and served as Sun Microsystems, Inc. project leader for both NeWS, and Java. He is currently (1997) a Vice President and "Distinguished Engineer" at Sun.
- japanese plum — a small tree, Prunus salicina, native to China, bearing edible yellowish fruit.
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- john marshall — Alfred, 1842–1924, English economist.
- jordan almond — a large, hard-shelled, Spanish almond used especially in confectionery.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
- kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
- kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
- kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
- kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.