13-letter words containing l, o, n, i, e
- octodecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 57 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 108 zeros.
- oil hardening — to quench (steel) in a bath of oil.
- old icelandic — Old Norse as used in Iceland. Abbreviation: OIcel.
- old ironsides — the U.S. frigate Constitution (used as a nickname).
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- olefin series — alkene series.
- oleomargarine — margarine.
- oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
- oligosiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups.
- omnicorporeal — Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
- omnipresently — In an omnipresent manner.
- on cloud nine — blissfully happy
- on reflection — second thoughts
- on the fiddle — If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
- onomatopoeial — (obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia.
- open interval — (mathematics) A type of interval (range of numbers) that does not include either of its endpoints. For example, when mixing red and blue paint, the proportion of red lies in the interval 0% to 100% but can't be exactly 0% or 100% or it wouldn't be a mixture.
- open learning — a system of further education on a flexible part-time basis
- operationally — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- opinionatedly — In an opinionated manner.
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- oral examiner — someone who administers oral exams
- orbital index — the ratio of the maximum breadth to the maximum height of the orbital cavity multiplied by 100.
- ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- organ-builder — a maker of organs
- orientalizing — Present participle of orientalize.
- orientational — Of or pertaining to orientation.
- originalities — Plural form of originality.
- originatively — in an originative manner
- ornamentalism — the desire or tendency to feature ornament in the design of buildings, interiors, furnishings, etc.
- ornamentalist — A person who ornaments.
- ornamentality — used or grown for ornament: ornamental plants.
- orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- orthogonalize — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- ostensibility — The quality of being ostensible.
- outgeneraling — Present participle of outgeneral.
- outmanipulate — to surpass in manipulation
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- over-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
- over-reliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- overanalyzing — Present participle of overanalyze.
- overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
- overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- overemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- overinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.