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13-letter words containing e, n, l

  • african plate — a major tectonic division of the earth's crust, comprising the African continent as well as adjacent ocean basins (the Canary, Cape Verde, Angola, Cape Agulhas, Somali, Madagascar, and Natal Basins), and bounded on the north by the Eurasian and Arabian Plates, on the east by mid-ocean ridges (the Southwest Indian, Mid-Indian, and Carlsberg Ridges), on the south by the Antarctic Plate, and on the west by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
  • age allowance — an income tax allowance given to taxpayers aged 65 or over
  • agent-general — a representative in London of a Canadian province or an Australian state
  • agglomeration — An agglomeration of things is a lot of different things gathered together, often in no particular order or arrangement.
  • agglutinative — tending to join or capable of joining
  • agglutinogens — Plural form of agglutinogen.
  • aggregational — resulting from aggregation
  • agreeableness — to one's liking; pleasing: agreeable manners; an agreeable sensation.
  • air ambulance — An air ambulance is a helicopter or plane that is used for taking people to hospital.
  • airline pilot — a person who flies planes as a profession and works for a commercial airline
  • airplane mode — a setting on a phone or other mobile device that turns off Wi-Fi, cellular, and other wireless connections.
  • airplane rule — aeroplane rule
  • airplane spin — a maneuver in which a wrestler, grasping an opponent by the head and crotch, lifts the opponent's body crosswise overhead, lowers it to the shoulders for support, then spins around and throws the opponent back over the head to the mat.
  • airplane turn — a midair turn made in the middle of a jump.
  • airport novel — People sometimes refer to long novels such as thrillers and romances that are written in a popular style as airport novels.
  • aix-les-bains — a town in E France: a resort with sulphurous springs. Pop: 25 732 (1999)
  • albert nyanza — Albert3
  • albumen paper — a printing paper coated with albumen, salt, and citric acid and sensitized with silver nitrate, used c1850–80.
  • albumen plate — a flexible zinc or aluminum printing plate coated with a photosensitive compound, used in offset printing of usually fewer than 50,000 copies.
  • aldosteronism — high blood pressure caused by excess aldosterone in the blood and urine
  • alectryomancy — an ancient form of divination, using a rooster to select grains of food placed on letters of the alphabet.
  • aleksandropol — a former name of Gumri.
  • aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
  • aleman lacayo — Jose Arnoldo [hoh-zey ahr-nohl-doh] /hoʊˈzeɪ ɑrˈnoʊl doʊ/ (Show IPA), 1946–2002, president of Nicaragua 1997–2002.
  • alexander iii — 1241–86, king of Scotland (1249–86), son of Alexander II
  • alexander vii — (Fabio Chigi) 1599–1667, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1655–67.
  • alfred austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • alice springs — a town in central Australia, in the Northern Territory, in the Macdonnell Ranges. Pop: 23 640 (2001)
  • alkaline soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of 8.5 or above, found esp in dry areas where the soluble salts, esp of sodium, have not been leached away but have accumulated in the B horizon of the soil profile
  • alkane series — the homologous series of saturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons having the general formula C n H 2n+2 , as methane, CH 4 , or ethane, C 2 H 6 .
  • alkene series — the homologous series of unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons containing one double bond and having the general formula C n H 2n , as ethylene, H 2 C=CH 2 .
  • all manner of — If you refer to all manner of objects or people, you are talking about objects or people of many different kinds.
  • all-embracing — Something that is all-embracing includes or affects everyone or everything.
  • all-inclusive — All-inclusive is used to indicate that a price, especially the price of a holiday, includes all the charges and all the services offered.
  • all-pervading — spreading through or into everything
  • allergenicity — causing allergic sensitization.
  • alliterations — Plural form of alliteration.
  • allophanamide — biuret.
  • allowableness — the quality of being allowable
  • alluvial cone — a steep, narrow, cone-shaped alluvial fan formed where a swift stream suddenly slows down, as where an upland stream emerges abruptly into a level plain
  • almond-shaped — oval
  • along the way — If something happens on the way or along the way, it happens during the course of a particular event or process.
  • alongshoreman — a person employed to load and unload ships
  • alpha carinae — Canopus1
  • alpha eridani — Achernar
  • alpha testing — (programming)   Testing of software at the developer's site by the customer. The stage before beta testing.
  • alphabetarian — a person learning, or studying, the alphabet
  • alphabetizing — Present participle of alphabetize.
  • alphanumerics — Plural form of alphanumeric.
  • alpine azalea — a low, branching shrub, Loiseleuria procumbens, of northern regions, having evergreen leaves and clusters of white or pink flowers.
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