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13-letter words containing e, t, o, u

  • interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
  • interreligous — Between religions.
  • interruptions — an act or instance of interrupting.
  • intervolution — (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
  • into the blue — into the unknown or the far distance
  • intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
  • isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
  • jebel toubkal — a mountain in SW Morocco: highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. 13,671 feet (4167 meters).
  • jejunostomies — Plural form of jejunostomy.
  • jequitinhonha — a river in E Brazil, flowing from the state of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
  • joint venture — business: joint enterprise
  • joint-venture — to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.
  • journal entry — sth written in a diary
  • juan de onate — Juan de [hwahn de] /ʰwɑn dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1550?–1624, Spanish explorer who colonized New Mexico.
  • judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
  • judgment note — Law. a note that expressly authorizes a creditor, in case of default, to seek a judgment in court without notifying the debtor.
  • just a moment — an expression requesting the hearer to wait or pause for a brief period of time
  • justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
  • 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.
  • knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
  • labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
  • leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
  • leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
  • leptophyllous — (of plants) having long slender leaves
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
  • libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
  • libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • lithium oxide — a white powder, Li 2 O, with strong alkaline properties: used in ceramics and glass.
  • litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
  • loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved
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