13-letter words containing i, s, o, t, e, n
- antireformers — Plural form of antireformer.
- antireligious — opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations
- antiresonance — a phenomenon in an electric, acoustic, or other such system in which the impedance is tending to infinity.
- antiselection — adverse selection.
- antiterrorism — opposed to or acting against terrorism; counterterrorist
- antiterrorist — relating to measures, policies, or organizations designed to combat terrorist activity
- anything goes — If people say 'anything goes', they mean that anything people say or do is considered acceptable, and usually they mean that they do not approve of this.
- aphanipterous — of or relating to the wingless insects of the order Aphaniptera
- apotheosizing — Present participle of apotheosize.
- apperceptions — Plural form of apperception.
- appersonation — the unconscious assumption of the personality characteristics of another, usually well known, person.
- appreciations — Plural form of appreciation.
- argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
- aristolochene — (organic compound) A bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi.
- arteriovenous — of, relating to, or affecting an artery and a vein
- as we know it — If you talk about a thing or system as we know it, you are referring to the form in which it exists now and which is familiar to most people.
- ascensiontide — the ten days from Ascension Day to the day before Whit Sunday
- astereognosis — inability to recognize objects by touch
- astonishments — Plural form of astonishment.
- aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
- athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
- atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
- atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
- auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
- augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
- autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
- backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
- bass-baritone — a singer or voice in the bass range with baritone qualities
- be witness to — If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
- bioenergetics — the study of energy transformations in living organisms and systems
- biogeneticist — genetic engineering.
- bisectionally — from a bisectional point of view
- bitch session — a discussion in which people complain or gripe, usually about a shared experience: Their first date turned into a four-hour bitch session about their ex-spouses' lawyers.
- black section — (in Britain in the 1980s) an unofficial group within the Labour Party in any constituency that represented the interests of local Black people
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- blastogenesis — the theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted only by germ plasm
- blood-stained — stained with blood: a bloodstained knife.
- brotherliness — of, like, or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal; fraternal: brotherly love.
- by contraries — contrary to what is expected
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- cancellations — Plural form of cancellation.
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
- cased edition — a hardback book sold in a protective box that is open at one edge so that you can see the spine of the book
- castellations — Defensive or decorative parapets with regularly spaced notches; battlements.