13-letter words containing e, n, c, r, a
- irc penis war — penis war
- irrelevancies — irrelevance.
- it governance — information technology governance
- japan current — a warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the E coast of Japan towards the North Pacific
- kangaroo care — a method of caring for a premature baby in which the baby is periodically held against a parent's bare chest.
- kangaroo code — spaghetti code
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- killiecrankie — a mountain pass in central Scotland, in the Grampians.
- king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- knickknackery — Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
- knuckleballer — a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckle balls.
- lacrimal bone — a small, thin, membrane bone forming the front part of the inner wall of each orbit.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
- lamellibranch — bivalve.
- landing clerk — a representative of a shipping line who boards its incoming passenger ships to give passengers information and advice.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- lantern clock — an English bracket clock of the late 16th and 17th centuries, having a brass case with corner columns supporting pierced crestings on the sides and front.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- lateral canal — a canal running parallel to a stream that is inconvenient or impossible to navigate.
- lateral chain — an open chain of atoms attached to an atom of a larger chain, or to a ring.
- latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- maccheroncini — thin pasta tubes made from wheat flour
- machine error — an error caused by a fault or defect in a machine rather than by human error
- machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
- macrencephaly — The presence of an abnormally large brain.
- macro-mineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
- macro-segment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- macroeconomic — the branch of economics dealing with the broad and general aspects of an economy, as the relationship between the income and investments of a country as a whole.
- 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.
- magazine rack — shelf for storing periodicals
- magic lantern — a device having an enclosed lamp and a lenslike opening, formerly used for projecting and magnifying images mounted on slides or films.
- magna graecia — the ancient colonial cities and settlements of Greece in S Italy.
- magnetic core — Computers. core1 (def 12a).
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- magnetic star — a star having a strong magnetic field.
- magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.