13-letter words containing n, u, l
- anencephalous — congenital absence of part or all of the brain.
- angular house — any of the four astrological houses that begin at the angles: the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth houses, that correspond, respectively, to self, home, others, and career.
- anisophyllous — having leaves of different shapes or sizes.
- annual report — a report presented by the directors of a company to its shareholders each year, containing the profit-and-loss account, the balance sheet, and details of the past year's activity
- annular clock — a clock in the form of a vase, ball, etc., having the hours painted on a ring rotating beneath a pointer.
- annular space — An annular space is a ring-shaped space outside the drillpipe, through which mud and cuttings are removed.
- antepenultima — (poetry) The last syllable of a word except two; an antepenult.
- anti-burglary — the felony of breaking into and entering the house of another at night with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day.
- anti-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- anti-populism — (lowercase) any of various, often antiestablishment or anti-intellectual political movements or philosophies that offer unorthodox solutions or policies and appeal to the common person rather than according with traditional party or partisan ideologies.
- anticellulite — acting against cellulite
- anticlinorium — a vast elongated anticline with its strata further folded into anticlines and synclines
- anticoagulant — acting to prevent or impair coagulation, esp of blood
- antievolution — a system of thought which argues against the biological theory of evolution
- antiguerrilla — acting against guerrilla activity
- antipollution — (of measures, policies, etc) designed to combat pollution and its causes
- antique glass — pot metal (def 4).
- antireligious — opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations
- antiritualism — opposed to ritualism
- antisexuality — the opposition to sexuality or sexual activity
- antismuggling — acting to prevent or reduce smuggling
- appendiculate — having appendicles
- aptitudinally — in a manner that indicates aptitude
- arcus senilis — an opaque circle around the cornea of the eye, often seen in elderly people
- articulations — Plural form of articulation.
- astronautical — of or relating to astronautics or astronauts.
- attitudinally — in a manner expressive of personal attitudes or emotions
- attributional — of or relating to the act of attributing
- auction block — Also called block. a platform from which an auctioneer sells: the old courthouse where slaves were sold from the auction block.
- audio-lingual — pertaining to listening comprehension and speaking, especially in learning a foreign language.
- aulic council — a council, founded in 1498, of the Holy Roman Emperor. It functioned mainly as a judicial body
- australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
- australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
- authentically — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
- automatonlike — Like an automaton; robotic.
- autonomically — autonomous.
- aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
- balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
- balloon chuck — a lathe chuck having the form of a hollow hemisphere, for enclosing and holding small parts, as balance staffs of watches, so that only their ends are exposed.
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bbn butterfly — (computer) A supercomputer developed at BBN Technologies, named after the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. It could have up to 512 CPUs connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, albeit with about 15 times the latency than for its own. The earlier GP-1000 models used up to 256 Motorola 68020s. The later TC-2000 models used up to 512 Motorola 88100s. Language developed for, or ported to, the BBN Butterfly were Butterfly Common LISP, Butterfly Scheme, Delirium, and MultiScheme.
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- bengal quince — bael.
- benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
- berkeley unix — Berkeley Software Distribution
- bernoulli box — (storage) A high capacity storage device, Iomega Corporation's first popular product, that spins a mylar disk over a read-write head using the Bernoulli principle.
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.