13-letter words containing e, n, c, r, o
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interoception — Any of the senses that detect conditions within the body.
- interoceptive — pertaining to interoceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- interoceptors — a receptor, especially of the viscera, responding to stimuli originating from within the body.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- intersections — Plural form of intersection.
- intersocietal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- intertropical — situated or occurring between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn; tropical.
- introducement — (obsolete) 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.
- invoice clerk — a worker, esp in an office, who deals with invoices
- iontophoretic — Of or pertaining to iontophoresis.
- irrecognition — lack or absence of recognition
- isoelectronic — noting or pertaining to atoms and ions having an equal number of electrons.
- it governance — information technology governance
- jet condenser — a steam condenser in which a jet of water is sprayed into the condenser chamber.
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- 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.
- knickerbocker — a descendant of the Dutch settlers of New York.
- l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
- 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.
- 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.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- lincoln green — an olive-green color.
- line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
- london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
- lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
- 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
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.