13-letter words containing c, n, s, t, i
- intransigency — a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- intricateness — The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.
- intrinsically — belonging to a thing by its very nature: the intrinsic value of a gold ring.
- intrinsicness — The quality or state of being intrinsic.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introspection — observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
- introspective — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- invectiveness — The quality of being invective.
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- isoelectronic — noting or pertaining to atoms and ions having an equal number of electrons.
- isotopic spin — a quantum number that is related to the number of different values of electric charge that a given kind of baryon or meson may have. Symbol: I.
- jail sentence — a term of imprisonment imposed by a court
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
- kinaesthetics — Alternative spelling of kinesthetics.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- 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.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
- liechtenstein — a small principality in central Europe between Austria and Switzerland: economically linked with Switzerland. 65 sq. mi. (168 sq. km). Capital: Vaduz.
- life instinct — suicidal tendency or inclination; predisposition to self-destruction.
- life sentence — a sentence condemning a convicted felon to spend the rest of his or her life in prison.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- little casino — the two of spades.
- localisations — Plural form of localisation.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lunar caustic — silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
- machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- magnetic axis — the straight line joining the two poles of a magnet, as the poles of the earth