13-letter words containing n, o, t, i, c
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- intersections — Plural form of intersection.
- intersocietal — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- intertropical — situated or occurring between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn; tropical.
- intoxicatedly — In an intoxicated fashion; drunkenly.
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- intrathoracic — (anatomy) Within the thorax.
- intratropical — Within the tropics.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- 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.
- iontophoretic — Of or pertaining to iontophoresis.
- irrecognition — lack or absence of recognition
- isoelectronic — noting or pertaining to atoms and ions having an equal number of electrons.
- isotopic spin — a quantum number that is related to the number of different values of electric charge that a given kind of baryon or meson may have. Symbol: I.
- it governance — information technology governance
- itaconic acid — a colorless crystalline compound, C 5 H 6 O 4 , obtained by fermentation, soluble in water, alcohol, and acetone: used as an intermediate in the formation of fibers, resins, etc.
- italicization — to print in italic type.
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- job applicant — candidate for an advertised post
- john endicott — John, Endecott, John.
- joint account — a bank account in the names of two or more persons or parties and subject to withdrawals by each.
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- joint tenancy — a holding of property, either real or personal, by two or more persons with each sharing the undivided interest, the entire tenancy passing to the survivor or survivors.
- jollification — jolly merrymaking; jolly festivity.
- junction city — a city in NE Kansas.
- junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- 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.
- knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- lichenization — any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees, etc.
- light colonel — a lieutenant colonel.
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.