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13-letter words containing l, a, u, e, n

  • sustentacular — supporting.
  • sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
  • table-turning — the movement of a table attributed by spiritualists to the power of spirits working through a group of persons placing their hands or fingers on the table top
  • tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
  • ten-yard rule — the rule allowing a referee, when a player disputes the award of a penalty or free kick, to penalize the offending side further by moving the place from which the kick is to be taken ten yards further forward
  • the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
  • the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • thundersquall — a combined squall and thunderstorm.
  • tone language — a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour.
  • toque blanche — the tall white hat traditionally worn by a chef
  • touchline ban — an official prohibition of a manager or coach from being present on or near the field during a match
  • tour en l'air — a turn executed in the air.
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trade journal — periodical of a profession
  • tranquillizer — a person or thing that tranquilizes.
  • transfusively — in a transfusive manner
  • translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
  • tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
  • turbine blade — any of a number of bladelike vanes assembled around the periphery of a turbine rotor to guide the steam or gas flow
  • tyrian purple — Also called Tyrian dye. a highly prized crimson or purple dye of classical antiquity, originally obtained at great expense from a certain shellfish: later shown to be an indigo derivative and synthetically produced, and now replaced by other synthetic dyes.
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • uillean pipes — bagpipes developed in Ireland and operated by squeezing bellows under the arm
  • ultra-violent — acting with or characterized by uncontrolled, strong, rough force: a violent earthquake.
  • ultrafeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
  • ultraviolence — acts of extreme violence, esp those shown on television or film
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • umbrella pine — a Japanese evergreen tree, Sciadopitys verticillata, having linear leaves growing in umbrellalike whorls, cultivated as an ornamental.
  • umbrella tent — a small tent with a metal frame consisting of ribs that radiate from a single supporting pole.
  • un-actionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
  • un-attachable — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
  • un-personable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
  • un-releasable — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
  • un-vulnerable — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
  • unaccelerated — to cause faster or greater activity, development, progress, advancement, etc., in: to accelerate economic growth.
  • unaccountable — impossible to account for; unexplained; inexplicable: The boat has an unaccountable tendency to yaw.
  • unadulterated — not diluted or made impure by adulterating; pure: unadulterated maple syrup.
  • unamiableness — the state or quality of being unamiable or ill-tempered
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
  • unappreciable — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
  • unarticulated — not articulated
  • unassertively — in an unassertive manner
  • unassimilable — capable of being assimilated.
  • unassimilated — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • unassuageable — not able to be assuaged or relieved
  • unbeautifully — in a unbeautiful or unattractive manner
  • unbenignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
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