13-letter words containing l, o, t, a, s
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- to fall short — If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.
- to lose heart — If you lose heart, you become sad and depressed and are no longer interested in something, especially because it is not progressing as you would like.
- to raise hell — If you say that someone raises hell, you are emphasizing that they protest strongly and angrily about a situation in order to persuade other people to correct it or improve it.
- toll traverse — a payment made for the right to cross privately owned property.
- total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
- total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
- tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
- touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
- tower hamlets — a borough of Greater London, England.
- townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
- toxoplasmosis — infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, transmitted to humans by consumption of insufficiently cooked meat containing the parasite or by contact with contaminated cats or their feces: the illness produced is usually mild, but in pregnant women may damage the fetus.
- transactional — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- translational — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
- translocation — a change of location.
- transnational — going beyond national boundaries or interests: a transnational economy.
- transpersonal — extending beyond or transcending the personal.
- transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
- transseasonal — pertaining to, dependent on, or accompanying the seasons of the year or some particular season; periodical: seasonal work.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- trucial coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
- tussiculation — a hacking cough.
- tympanoplasty — reconstruction of the eardrum and the bones of the middle ear.
- ultracautious — extremely or excessively cautious
- ultraroyalist — a supporter or adherent of a king or royal government, especially in times of rebellion or civil war.
- unambitiously — in an unambitious manner
- uncomplaisant — not eager to please; not compliant or obliging
- uncontestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- undulationist — a subscriber to the theory that light is transmitted as waves
- unmetabolised — not metabolised
- unpostponable — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- unsensational — not sensational
- unsmotherable — unquenchable
- unsupportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
- vaccinologist — the science of vaccine development.
- valle d'aosta — a region in NW Italy. 1259 sq. mi. (3260 sq. km).
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- vasostimulant — stimulating the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visualization — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- vocationalism — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
- vocationalist — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
- volcanologist — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.