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13-letter words containing l, e, a

  • age allowance — an income tax allowance given to taxpayers aged 65 or over
  • agent-general — a representative in London of a Canadian province or an Australian state
  • agglomeration — An agglomeration of things is a lot of different things gathered together, often in no particular order or arrangement.
  • agglomerative — gathered together into a cluster or mass.
  • agglutinative — tending to join or capable of joining
  • agglutinogens — Plural form of agglutinogen.
  • aggregational — resulting from aggregation
  • aggregatively — in an aggregative manner
  • agreeableness — to one's liking; pleasing: agreeable manners; an agreeable sensation.
  • agrochemicals — Plural form of agrochemical.
  • agroecologist — One who studies agroecology.
  • air ambulance — An air ambulance is a helicopter or plane that is used for taking people to hospital.
  • air core coil — having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils: air-core transformer.
  • airline pilot — a person who flies planes as a profession and works for a commercial airline
  • airmail paper — the very thin blue paper used to write letters that are to be sent by airmail
  • 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.
  • aix-les-bains — a town in E France: a resort with sulphurous springs. Pop: 25 732 (1999)
  • albert b fallAlbert Bacon, 1861–1944, U.S. politician: senator 1912–21; secretary of the Interior 1921–23; convicted in Teapot Dome scandal.
  • albert edward — a mountain in SE New Guinea, in the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 3993 m (13 100 ft)
  • albert nyanza — Albert3
  • albertosaurus — A giant fierce carnivorous tyrannosaurus-like dinosaur, of gemus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.
  • albumen paper — a printing paper coated with albumen, salt, and citric acid and sensitized with silver nitrate, used c1850–80.
  • albumen plate — a flexible zinc or aluminum printing plate coated with a photosensitive compound, used in offset printing of usually fewer than 50,000 copies.
  • alchemistical — relating to alchemists
  • alcohol abuse — the excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks
  • alcoholometer — an instrument, such as a specially calibrated hydrometer, for determining the percentage of alcohol in a liquid
  • alcoholometry — the process of measuring the concentration of alcohol in a liquid, such as in blood or a liquor
  • aldosteronism — high blood pressure caused by excess aldosterone in the blood and urine
  • alectryomancy — an ancient form of divination, using a rooster to select grains of food placed on letters of the alphabet.
  • aleksandropol — a former name of Gumri.
  • aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
  • aleman lacayo — Jose Arnoldo [hoh-zey ahr-nohl-doh] /hoʊˈzeɪ ɑrˈnoʊl doʊ/ (Show IPA), 1946–2002, president of Nicaragua 1997–2002.
  • alexander iii — 1241–86, king of Scotland (1249–86), son of Alexander II
  • alexander vii — (Fabio Chigi) 1599–1667, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1655–67.
  • alexis carrel — Alexis [uh-lek-sis;; French a-lek-see] /əˈlɛk sɪs;; French a lɛkˈsi/ (Show IPA), 1873–1944, French surgeon and biologist, in U.S. 1905–39: Nobel Prize 1912.
  • alfred austinAlfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • algebraically — of, occurring in, or utilizing algebra.
  • alice springs — a town in central Australia, in the Northern Territory, in the Macdonnell Ranges. Pop: 23 640 (2001)
  • alkaline soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of 8.5 or above, found esp in dry areas where the soluble salts, esp of sodium, have not been leached away but have accumulated in the B horizon of the soil profile
  • 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 manner of — If you refer to all manner of objects or people, you are talking about objects or people of many different kinds.
  • all over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
  • all the while — You use all the while in order to say that something happens continually or that it happens throughout the time when something else is happening.
  • all very well — You use all very well to suggest that you do not really approve of something or you think that it is unreasonable.
  • all-cash deal — An all-cash deal is a financial transaction in which the payment is made entirely in money.
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