13-letter words containing a, n, l, s
- 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.
- alliterations — Plural form of alliteration.
- allochthonous — (of rocks, deposits, etc) found in a place other than where they or their constituents were formed
- allowableness — the quality of being allowable
- almond-shaped — oval
- alongshoreman — a person employed to load and unload ships
- alpha orionis — Betelgeuse
- alpha testing — (programming) Testing of software at the developer's site by the customer. The stage before beta testing.
- alphanumerics — Plural form of alphanumeric.
- alterableness — The state or quality of being alterable.
- alternateness — The state or quality of being alternate.
- alternativism — The rejection of a social normality through the pursuit of alternatives.
- aluminiferous — containing or yielding aluminium or alumina
- aluminum soap — any of the salts formed by higher carboxylic acids and aluminum, as aluminum oleate, aluminum palmitate, and aluminum stearate.
- amalgamations — Plural form of amalgamation.
- ammonium salt — any salt containing the NH 4 + ion, formed by the neutralization of ammonium hydroxide by an acid.
- amundsen gulf — a gulf in the Beaufort Sea in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
- anachronously — in an anachronous manner
- analogousness — The quality of being analogous.
- analphabetism — the inability to read and write, illiteracy
- analysability — the capacity of something or someone to be analysed
- andersonville — town in SW central Ga.: site of a Confederate prison in the Civil War
- androgynously — In an androgynous manner.
- anencephalous — congenital absence of part or all of the brain.
- angel's share — the amount of alcoholic liquor that evaporates during distillation.
- angelicalness — The state or quality of being angelical.
- angioplasties — Plural form of angioplasty.
- anglicisation — The process by which something or someone (usually a word) is made more English. Usually applied to language or culture.
- 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.
- animal rights — People who are concerned with animal rights believe very strongly that animals should not be exploited or harmed by humans.
- animal starch — glycogen.
- anisophyllous — having leaves of different shapes or sizes.
- ankyloglossia — tongue-tie.
- annular space — An annular space is a ring-shaped space outside the drillpipe, through which mud and cuttings are removed.
- anomalistical — relating to a planet's angular distance from its last perihelion or orbital point nearest to the sun
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- anthelmintics — Plural form of anthelmintic.
- anti-aliasing — a technique for smoothing out jagged lines in graphical computer output.
- anti-idealism — the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
- anti-idealist — a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. Synonyms: optimist, perfectionist, reformer, visionary, utopianist. Antonyms: pragmatist, skeptic, cynic.
- anti-politics — the science or art of political government.
- 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.
- antiballistic — of or relating to defence against ballistic weapons
- anticatalysts — Plural form of anticatalyst.
- anticlassical — against the trend of the classical period
- anticlockwise — If something is moving anticlockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- anticollision — intended to avoid collisions
- antielectrons — Plural form of antielectron.
- antiformalist — opposed to formalism