13-letter words containing n, e, s, t, l
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- sublieutenant — British. a navy officer ranking next below a lieutenant.
- subserviently — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- substanceless — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- substantively — a noun.
- subternatural — falling below what is accepted as natural; less than natural
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
- sunset clause — time limit written into a law
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- supermilitant — highly militant
- supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
- superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
- supervirulent — extremely virulent
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- sustentacular — supporting.
- sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
- swindle sheet — an expense account.
- synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- table manners — etiquette when eating
- table setting — a set of cutlery, glasses, napkin, etc. for one person, as used on a table
- tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
- talkativeness — inclined to talk a great deal: One drink and she became very talkative.
- teachableness — the quality or condition of being teachable
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- telediagnosis — the detection of a disease by evaluating data transmitted to a receiving station from instruments monitoring a distant patient, as someone in a spacecraft.
- teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
- telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
- televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
- televangelist — an evangelist who regularly conducts religious services on television.
- tennis player — sportsperson who plays tennis
- terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
- the fast lane — If you say that someone lives their life in the fast lane, you mean that they live in a way which seems full of activity and excitement but which often involves a lot of pressure.
- the headlines — the main points of a television or radio news broadcast, read out before the full broadcast and summarized at the end
- the highlands — mountainous region occupying nearly all of the N half of Scotland
- the invisible — God
- the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
- thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
- thessalonians — a native or inhabitant of Thessalonike.
- think less of — to have a lower opinion of
- thinkableness — the state or quality of being conceivable or thinkable