13-letter words containing l, u, n
- interlocution — conversation; dialogue.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interlunation — the interlunar period.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interneuronal — (neurology) Between neurons.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interquartile — Situated between the first and third quartiles of a distribution.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
- interruptible — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
- intersexually — In an intersexual way.
- interstimulus — being, or relating to, the interval between the occurrence of two stimuli in a psychological experiment
- intervalvular — Between valves.
- intervolution — (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
- into the blue — into the unknown or the far distance
- intracapsular — Within a capsule.
- intracellular — within a cell or cells.
- intracultural — Within a single culture.
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- intratelluric — Geology. located in, taking place in, or resulting from action beneath the lithosphere.
- intravalvular — Between valves.
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- intuitionally — With intuition.
- involuntarily — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- isospondylous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes), an order of soft-finned teleost fishes that includes the herring, salmon, trout, and pike
- january sales — sales held after Christmas to encourage customers back to the shops
- japanese plum — a small tree, Prunus salicina, native to China, bearing edible yellowish fruit.
- jesus sandals — simple leather sandals of a type often worn by hippies
- john q public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- juggling eggs — Keeping a lot of state in your head while modifying a program. "Don't bother me now, I'm juggling eggs", means that an interrupt is likely to result in the program's being scrambled. In the classic first-contact SF novel "The Mote in God's Eye", by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an alien describes a very difficult task by saying "We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity." See also hack mode.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.