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13-letter words containing i, n, r, e

  • african grape — a watermelon.
  • 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.
  • afro-american — African-American
  • age hardening — the hardening of metals by spontaneous structural changes over a period of time
  • aggiornamento — the process of bringing up to date methods, ideas, etc
  • agglomeration — An agglomeration of things is a lot of different things gathered together, often in no particular order or arrangement.
  • aggregational — resulting from aggregation
  • agro-economic — of or relating to a nation's agricultural economy, the financial problems of farmers as a group, etc.: mounting pressures on the agro-economic system.
  • air ambulance — An air ambulance is a helicopter or plane that is used for taking people to hospital.
  • air force one — the US Air Force plane used by the US president
  • air freshener — An air freshener is a product people can buy which is meant to make rooms smell pleasant.
  • air hardening — a process of hardening high-alloy steels by heating and cooling in a current of air
  • air injection — injection of liquid fuel into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine, especially a diesel, by means of a jet of compressed air.
  • air-breathing — (of an engine, aircraft, missile, etc.) to take in air from the atmosphere to oxidize the fuel for combustion.
  • air-hardening — noting any metal, especially alloy steel, that can be hardened from above its transformation point by cooling in air.
  • aircraftwomen — Plural form of aircraftwoman.
  • airheadedness — The quality of being airheaded.
  • 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.
  • airworthiness — (of an aircraft) meeting established standards for safe flight; equipped and maintained in condition to fly.
  • aldosteronism — high blood pressure caused by excess aldosterone in the blood and urine
  • 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)
  • 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-embracing — Something that is all-embracing includes or affects everyone or everything.
  • all-pervading — spreading through or into everything
  • allergenicity — causing allergic sensitization.
  • alliterations — Plural form of alliteration.
  • alpha carinae — Canopus1
  • alpha eridani — Achernar
  • alphabetarian — a person learning, or studying, the alphabet
  • alphanumerics — Plural form of alphanumeric.
  • alpine garden — a rock garden.
  • alpine tundra — a tundra that is treeless because of high elevation rather than high latitude.
  • alternatingly — to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually followed by with): Day alternates with night.
  • alternatively — You use alternatively to introduce a suggestion or to mention something different to what has just been stated.
  • alternativism — The rejection of a social normality through the pursuit of alternatives.
  • alternativity — A characteristic of something having alternative connotations, akin to the representation of choice between two or more possibilities.
  • aluminiferous — containing or yielding aluminium or alumina
  • aluminothermy — a process for reducing metallic oxides using finely divided aluminium powder. The mixture of aluminium and the oxide is ignited, causing the aluminium to be oxidized and the metal oxide to be reduced to the metal
  • amateur night — an entertainment featuring amateur performers, often in competition for prizes.
  • american aloe — century plant
  • american bond — a brickwork bond having a course of headers between five or six courses of stretchers.
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