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13-letter words containing o

  • airplane mode — a setting on a phone or other mobile device that turns off Wi-Fi, cellular, and other wireless connections.
  • airport novel — People sometimes refer to long novels such as thrillers and romances that are written in a popular style as airport novels.
  • airworthiness — (of an aircraft) meeting established standards for safe flight; equipped and maintained in condition to fly.
  • aius locutius — a disembodied voice that warned the Romans of a coming invasion by the Gauls.
  • ajax mountain — a peak on the Idaho-Montana border, in the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains. 10,900 feet (3,324 meters).
  • albertosaurus — A giant fierce carnivorous tyrannosaurus-like dinosaur, of gemus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.
  • albizu campos — Pedro [pe-th raw] /ˈpɛ ðrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1964, Puerto Rican political leader.
  • albumin color — (in textile printing) a color fixed to a fabric by an albuminous mordant.
  • alcohol abuse — the excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks
  • alcohol patch — a patch impregnated with the drug mecamylamine, which is worn on the skin by someone trying to reduce his or her craving for alcohol
  • alcoholically — in an alcoholic manner
  • alcoholometer — an instrument, such as a specially calibrated hydrometer, for determining the percentage of alcohol in a liquid
  • alcoholometry — the process of measuring the concentration of alcohol in a liquid, such as in blood or a liquor
  • aldosteronism — high blood pressure caused by excess aldosterone in the blood and urine
  • alectryomancy — an ancient form of divination, using a rooster to select grains of food placed on letters of the alphabet.
  • aleksandropol — a former name of Gumri.
  • aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
  • aleman lacayo — Jose Arnoldo [hoh-zey ahr-nohl-doh] /hoʊˈzeɪ ɑrˈnoʊl doʊ/ (Show IPA), 1946–2002, president of Nicaragua 1997–2002.
  • alkali-loving — (of a plant) requiring a pH of 7.1 to 9 for optimal growth.
  • alkaline soil — a soil that gives a pH reaction of 8.5 or above, found esp in dry areas where the soluble salts, esp of sodium, have not been leached away but have accumulated in the B horizon of the soil profile
  • all manner of — If you refer to all manner of objects or people, you are talking about objects or people of many different kinds.
  • all over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
  • all-consuming — taking up all of someone's time and attention
  • all-important — crucial; vital
  • allegorically — consisting of or pertaining to allegory; of the nature of or containing allgegory; figurative: an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning.
  • allelomorphic — relating to alleles
  • allhallowtide — the season of All Saints' Day (Allhallows)
  • alligator gar — a large, heavily scaled fish, Lepisosteus spatula, with an elongated body and long snout, found mainly in shallow weedy fresh water in the southeastern U.S.
  • alligatorfish — a slender marine fish, Aspidophoroides monopterygius, of Atlantic seas, having overlapping plates covering the body.
  • alliterations — Plural form of alliteration.
  • allochromatic — Physical Chemistry. pertaining to or having photochemical properties resulting from an impurity or from exposure to radiation.
  • allochthonous — (of rocks, deposits, etc) found in a place other than where they or their constituents were formed
  • allophanamide — biuret.
  • allopolyploid — (of cells, organisms, etc) having more than two sets of haploid chromosomes inherited from different species
  • allotriomorph — (geology) A mineral that did not develop its otherwise typical external crystal form because of late crystallization between earlier formed crystals, typical of matrix minerals in rapidly crystallizing volcanic lavas and shallow igneous intrusions.
  • allotriophagy — (rare) Having food cravings that are different from the expected or the norm.
  • allotypically — in the manner of an allotype
  • allowable cut — the amount of a natural resource, as grain or oil, that may be harvested or taken from the earth within a specified period, as limited by law for conservation.
  • allowableness — the quality of being allowable
  • alluvial cone — a steep, narrow, cone-shaped alluvial fan formed where a swift stream suddenly slows down, as where an upland stream emerges abruptly into a level plain
  • allyl alcohol — a colourless pungent poisonous liquid used in the manufacture of resins, plasticizers, and other organic chemicals. Formula: CH2:CHCH2OH; relative density: 0.85; melting pt: –129°C; boiling pt: 96.9°C
  • allylthiourea — thiosinamine.
  • almond willow — a deciduous shrub or small tree, Salix triandra, a species of willow native to Europe and W and Central Asia that has flowers which produce catkins and leaves similar in shape to those of the almond tree
  • almond-shaped — oval
  • along the way — If something happens on the way or along the way, it happens during the course of a particular event or process.
  • alongshoreman — a person employed to load and unload ships
  • alonzo church — (person)   A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambda-calculus and posited a version of the Church-Turing thesis.
  • alpha blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the alpha receptors.
  • alpha orionis — Betelgeuse
  • alpha scorpii — Antares
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