13-letter words containing o, c, u, r
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- intraocularly — into or in the eye
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- jacquard loom — a loom for producing elaborate designs in an intricate weave (Jacquard weave) constructed from a variety of basic weaves.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- logic circuit — a circuit designed to perform complex functions defined in terms of elementary functions of mathematical logic.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
- macromolecule — a very large molecule, as a colloidal particle, protein, or especially a polymer, composed of hundreds or thousands of atoms.
- macromutation — a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- macronutrient — Nutrition. any of the nutritional components of the diet that are required in relatively large amounts: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and the macrominerals.
- macrovascular — Of or pertaining to the larger blood vessels.
- maculopapular — (medicine, of a rash) Consisting of a flat, red area on the skin that is covered with small confluent bumps, as in scarlet fever and measles.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- many-coloured — having many colours
- mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- matriculation — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.