13-letter words containing a, t, o, u, c
- incultivation — (obsolete) Want of cultivation.
- inculturation — enculturation.
- instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- joint account — a bank account in the names of two or more persons or parties and subject to withdrawals by each.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macromutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- macronutrient — Nutrition. any of the nutritional components of the diet that are required in relatively large amounts: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and the macrominerals.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- matriculation — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- matriculatory — relating to matriculation
- mayor's court — a city court presided over by a mayor.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- microcultural — Of or pertaining to a microculture.
- micronucleate — having a micronucleus.
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- miscalculator — A person who miscalculates.
- monodactylous — having only one digit or claw.
- mononucleated — having a single nucleus
- moustache cup — mustache cup.
- mucocutaneous — Of or pertaining to the mucous membranes and the skin.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.