13-letter words containing e, p, n, t
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
- kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- kinesipathist — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
- laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
- latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- letter opener — bladed tool for opening envelopes
- 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.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- little prince — an allegorical fantasy (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- lymphopoietin — (protein) A cytokine protein that has a function in T cell maturation.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- magnetic tape — strip sensitive to electromagnets
- magnetic-tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- mainz psalter — a book printed by Johannes Gutenberg: thought by some to be the first book printed from movable type.
- major penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player for five minutes from play, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
- manipulatable — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- maritime pine — cluster pine.
- married print — composite print.
- maternity pay — the pay a woman receives from her work during her absence immediately before and after childbirth
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- meeting place — A meeting place is a place where people meet.
- megalopolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
- melting point — the temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metallophones — Plural form of metallophone.
- metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.