13-letter words containing n, o, e, c, s
- intersections — Plural form of intersection.
- intersocietal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- introspection — observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
- introspective — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- isoelectronic — noting or pertaining to atoms and ions having an equal number of electrons.
- jet condenser — a steam condenser in which a jet of water is sprayed into the condenser chamber.
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.
- kin selection — a form of natural selection that favors altruistic behavior toward close relatives resulting in an increase in the altruistic individual's genetic contribution to the next generation.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laser cooling — a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- little casino — the two of spades.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- macro-segment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- magnetostatic — Of or pertaining to magnetostatics.
- magnoliaceous — belonging to the plant family Magnoliaceae.
- maliciousness — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- marchionesses — Plural form of marchioness.
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- megalomaniacs — Plural form of megalomaniac.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- meningococcus — a reniform or spherical bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.
- mercerisation — A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.