13-letter words containing a, r, n, t, l
- another place — the other House of Parliament (used in the House of Commons to refer to the House of Lords and vice versa)
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- anterolateral — Both anterior and lateral.
- anthropolatry — the worship of a human as a god
- anthropologic — the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.
- anthrozoology — The study of the interactions between humans and animals.
- anti-allergic — intended to prevent or minimize an allergic reaction
- 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-morality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
- anti-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- anti-roll bar — a crosswise rubber-mounted bar in the suspension of a motor vehicle, which counteracts the movement downward on one side when cornering
- antibacterial — effective against bacteria
- antibillboard — indicating an opposition to the erection of billboards
- anticlinorium — a vast elongated anticline with its strata further folded into anticlines and synclines
- antidiarrheal — An antidiarrheal is a substance used to prevent or treat diarrhea.
- antielectrons — Plural form of antielectron.
- antiempirical — Going against what is empirically true.
- antifertility — acting to suppress fertility or as a contraceptive
- antiformalist — opposed to formalism
- antiguerrilla — acting against guerrilla activity
- antilittering — (of a campaign) intended to discourage litter dropping
- antilogarithm — a number whose logarithm to a given base is a given number
- antimicrobial — capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microbes
- antiparticles — Plural form of antiparticle.
- antipersonnel — (of weapons, etc) designed to cause casualties to personnel rather than to destroy equipment or defences
- antiprotozoal — (medicine) That inhibits or destroys protozoa.
- antireflexive — noting a relation in which no element is in relation to itself, as “less than.”.
- antireligious — opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations
- antiritualism — opposed to ritualism
- antisterility — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- apportionable — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- arbitrational — relating to, involving, or resulting from arbitration
- aristolochene — (organic compound) A bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi.
- arm wrestling — a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table
- armor-plating — The armor-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering that is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- arterializing — Present participle of arterialize.
- artesian well — well sunk through impermeable strata receiving water from an area at a higher altitude than that of the well
- articulations — Plural form of articulation.
- ascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ascertainably — In a way that can be ascertained.
- aspirationals — Plural form of aspirational.
- astronautical — of or relating to astronautics or astronauts.
- attributional — of or relating to the act of attributing
- australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
- australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- balanced tree — (algorithm) An optimisation of a tree which aims to keep equal numbers of items on each subtree of each node so as to minimise the maximum path from the root to any leaf node. As items are inserted and deleted, the tree is restructured to keep the nodes balanced and the search paths uniform. Such an algorithm is appropriate where the overheads of the reorganisation on update are outweighed by the benefits of faster search. A B-tree is a kind of balanced tree that can have more than two subtrees at each node (i.e. one that is not restricted to being a binary tree).
- ballet dancer — a man or woman who takes part in ballet dancing, usually professionally
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders