13-letter words containing e, n, t, r, a, l
- antiparticles — Plural form of antiparticle.
- antipersonnel — (of weapons, etc) designed to cause casualties to personnel rather than to destroy equipment or defences
- antireflexive — noting a relation in which no element is in relation to itself, as “less than.”.
- antireligious — opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations
- antisterility — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.
- apportionable — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- aristolochene — (organic compound) A bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi.
- arm wrestling — a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table
- arterializing — Present participle of arterialize.
- artesian well — well sunk through impermeable strata receiving water from an area at a higher altitude than that of the well
- ascertainable — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- ascertainably — In a way that can be ascertained.
- australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- balanced tree — (algorithm) An optimisation of a tree which aims to keep equal numbers of items on each subtree of each node so as to minimise the maximum path from the root to any leaf node. As items are inserted and deleted, the tree is restructured to keep the nodes balanced and the search paths uniform. Such an algorithm is appropriate where the overheads of the reorganisation on update are outweighed by the benefits of faster search. A B-tree is a kind of balanced tree that can have more than two subtrees at each node (i.e. one that is not restricted to being a binary tree).
- ballet dancer — a man or woman who takes part in ballet dancing, usually professionally
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
- baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
- bass clarinet — a clarinet with the lowest range, in the octave below the B-flat clarinet
- baton twirler — someone who twirls a baton, esp a drum major or majorette
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
- beetlebrained — stupid
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- bethnal green — a former borough of London, England, N of the Thames.
- bidirectional — (of a printhead) capable of printing from left to right and from right to left
- birectangular — having two right angles.
- bitter almond — a variety of almond whose bitter seeds yield hydrocyanic acid upon hydrolysis
- black panther — (in the US) a member of a militant Black political party (1965–82) founded to end the political dominance of White people
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- blarney stone — a stone in Blarney Castle, in the SW Republic of Ireland, said to endow whoever kisses it with the gift of the gab and skill in flattery
- blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
- borlotti bean — variety of kidney bean
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- brilliantined — treated with brilliantine
- brittany blue — a medium greenish blue.
- call the turn — to predict successfully
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- cancellariate — the office of chancellor
- candlelighter — a person whose task it is to light candles
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- cardinalities — Plural form of cardinality.
- carlton table — an English writing table of c1800, having curved rear corners and a top with drawers surmounted by a U -shaped section of drawers and cabinets, topped by a brass or ormolu gallery surrounding three sides of the writing area.
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
- carte blanche — If someone gives you carte blanche, they give you the authority to do whatever you think is right.
- cartelization — The act of cartelizing.
- central angle — an angle whose vertex is at the centre of a circle
- central asian — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Asia