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13-letter words containing m, a, l, t, e

  • intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
  • interfamilial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.
  • interlacement — to cross one another, typically passing alternately over and under, as if woven together; intertwine: Their hands interlaced.
  • interlaminate — to interlay or lay between laminae; interstratify.
  • intermarginal — occurring or situated between two margins
  • intermetallic — (inorganic chemistry) of, relating to, acting between, or comprising two or more metals.
  • intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
  • intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
  • interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
  • intertemporal — Describing any relationship between past, present and future events or conditions.
  • interterminal — occurring or existing between, or travelling between, transport terminals
  • intradermally — within the dermis.
  • islamic state — an Islamist terrorist organization, formed in the early 21st century, whose aim is to create a caliphate in the Middle East and N Africa
  • ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
  • isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
  • 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.
  • kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
  • kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
  • lady's mantle — any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers
  • lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
  • lamaze method — a method by which an expectant mother is prepared for childbirth by education, psychological and physical conditioning, and breathing exercises.
  • lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
  • lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
  • laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
  • laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • last judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
  • latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
  • legacy system — (jargon)   A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
  • legitimatized — Simple past tense and past participle of legitimatize.
  • leiomyomatous — a benign tumor composed of nonstriated muscular tissue.
  • let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
  • let us assume — You can use let us assume or let's assume when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
  • liberationism — the principles of liberationists
  • lifted domain — (theory)   In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.
  • light mineral — any rock-forming mineral that has a specific gravity of less than 2.8 and is generally light in color.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
  • loathsomeness — The property or nature that gives rise to revulsion, that inspires loathing.
  • lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lucifer match — friction match.
  • lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
  • lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
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