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13-letter words containing o, p, t, e

  • iontophoresis — a painless alternative to drug injection in which a weak electrical current is used to stimulate drug-carrying ions to pass through intact skin.
  • iontophoretic — Of or pertaining to iontophoresis.
  • irreciprocity — lack or absence of reciprocity
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • isoproterenol — a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist, C 11 H 17 NO 3 , used as a bronchodilator.
  • jacket potato — potato: baked in its skin
  • jasperization — The act or process of jasperizing.
  • jet-propelled — propelled by a jet engine or engines.
  • joint partner — a person who shares the ownership of a firm or business equally with another or others
  • jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
  • joseph crater — Joseph Force [fawrs,, fohrs] /fɔrs,, foʊrs/ (Show IPA), 1889–? a judge of the New York State Supreme Court: his mysterious disappearance on August 6, 1930, has never been solved.
  • joseph lister — Joseph, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis [lahym ree-jis] /laɪm ˈri dʒɪs/ (Show IPA), 1827–1912, English surgeon: founder of modern antiseptic surgery.
  • joseph ritter — Joseph Elmer, 1891–1967, U.S. cardinal.
  • joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
  • joseph's coat — an ornamental species of pigweed (Amaranthus tricolor) having red, yellow, and green upper leaves
  • joseph's-coat — a cultivated form of Amaranthus tricolor, having headlike clusters of small flowers and blotched and colored leaves.
  • jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • keep in touch — stay in contact
  • keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
  • keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • kinematograph — cinematograph.
  • kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
  • laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • leaded petrol — petrol containing tetraethyl lead in order to improve combustion
  • leap of faith — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
  • leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
  • leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
  • lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
  • leptophyllous — (of plants) having long slender leaves
  • leptospirosis — an infectious disease of humans and of horses, dogs, swine, and other animals, caused by the spirochete Leptospira interrogans and characterized by fever, muscle pain, and jaundice, and in severe cases involving the liver and kidney.
  • letter opener — bladed tool for opening envelopes
  • leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
  • liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
  • lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
  • little people — small supernatural beings, such as elves, pixies, or leprechauns
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • 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
  • loop the loop — plane: fly upside down
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