13-letter words containing a, u, t, o, r
- involuntarily — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- 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
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- junior rating — a military rank for non-officer personnel in the navy
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- liquid storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
- 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
- loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
- louis pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
- 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.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
- 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.
- measure up to — to fulfil (expectations, standards, etc)
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medium quarto — a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 4to.
- megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- 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.
- monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.
- monosaturated — (organic chemistry, of a glyceride) Having one saturated fatty acid.
- monotrematous — of or relating to a monotreme.
- mons serratus — a mountain in NE Spain, northwest of Barcelona: famous Benedictine monastery. Height: 1235 m (4054 ft)
- moose pasture — land considered to be worthless, esp when lacking in extractable mineral deposits
- moral support — emotional assistance, encouragement
- mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
- mother nature — a personification of the forces of nature as a controlling and regulating maternal being, sometimes creative and caring.
- mount aragats — a volcanic mountain in NW Armenia. Height: 4090 m (13 419 ft)
- mount gambier — a city in S Australia.