13-letter words containing o, n, c, e, t
- announcements — Plural form of announcement.
- another place — the other House of Parliament (used in the House of Commons to refer to the House of Lords and vice versa)
- anthropogenic — relating to anthropogenesis
- anticlockwise — If something is moving anticlockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- anticorporate — opposed to the activities or practices of big business
- anticorrosive — preventing corrosion
- antielectrons — Plural form of antielectron.
- antiinfection — Preventing or counteracting infection.
- antimetabolic — inhibiting metabolism
- antiobscenity — opposed to or working to combat obscenity
- antioncogenes — Plural form of antioncogene.
- antirecession — acting against recession
- antirejection — acting to prevent the rejection of a transplanted organ
- antiresonance — a phenomenon in an electric, acoustic, or other such system in which the impedance is tending to infinity.
- antiselection — adverse selection.
- apperceptions — Plural form of apperception.
- appreciations — Plural form of appreciation.
- arc cotangent — the angle, measured in radians, that has a cotangent equal to a given number. Symbol: cot −1. Abbreviation: arc cot.
- archaeobotany — the analysis and interpretation of plant remains found at archaeological sites
- architectonic — denoting, relating to, or having architectural qualities
- aristolochene — (organic compound) A bicyclic sesquiterpene produced by certain fungi.
- ascensiontide — the ten days from Ascension Day to the day before Whit Sunday
- asset account — An asset account is an account that records the assets owned by a company.
- at one's back — behind, esp in support or pursuit
- atomic energy — nuclear energy
- atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
- atomic weapon — a weapon in which energy is provided by nuclear fission
- atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
- auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
- auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
- authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
- auto-injector — An auto-injector is a hypodermic syringe that you can use to inject yourself with a liquid.
- autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
- automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
- averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
- backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
- backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
- bacteriogenic — Caused by bacteria.
- bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
- bacteriotoxin — any toxin that kills bacteria
- bacterization — subjection to bacterial action
- baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
- baseline cost — the projected cost for an undertaking at the time it is budgeted
- basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
- beacon status — a ranking awarded by the government to an organization, rendering it eligible for extra funding, and aimed at encouraging organizations to share good practice with each other
- beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
- benedictional — a book of benedictions or blessings
- beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- benzalacetone — benzylidene acetone.