13-letter words containing s, c, a, n, t, l
- kristallnacht — a Nazi pogrom throughout Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, during which Jews were killed and their property destroyed.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- list enhanced — (operating system, tool) An MS-DOS file browsing utility written by Vern Buerg in 1983. A former mainframe systems programmer, Buerg wrote DOS utilities when he began using an IBM PC and missed the file-scanning ability he had on mainframes. The software became an instant success, and his list utility was in use on an estimated 5 million PCs.
- little casino — the two of spades.
- localisations — Plural form of localisation.
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lunar caustic — silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetic lens — Physics. an electron lens using magnetic fields for focusing an electron beam.
- maiden castle — an ancient fortification in Dorsetshire, England, first erected c250 b.c. over the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements of c2000–c1500 b.c.
- malacostracan — belonging or pertaining to the crustacean subclass Malacostraca, which includes the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, etc.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- masculinities — Plural form of masculinity.
- matchlessness — The state or condition of being matchless.
- maternalistic — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- metallic lens — an arrangement of louvres used to direct and focus electromagnetic or sound waves
- michelin star — a mark of distinction awarded by the Michelin travel guides to a restaurant in recognition of the high quality of its cooking. A restaurant may receive one, two, or three stars, representing very good, exceptional, or exquisite cuisine, respectively
- microtonalism — The use of microtones in music.
- misallocating — Present participle of misallocate.
- misallocation — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- monodactylous — having only one digit or claw.
- montes claros — a city in E Brazil.
- multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
- nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
- nationalistic — a person devoted to nationalism.
- nature's call — call of nature.
- neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
- neocapitalist — a person who advocates neocapitalism
- neoclassicist — (sometimes initial capital letter) belonging or pertaining to a revival of classic styles or something that is held to resemble classic styles, as in art, literature, music, or architecture.
- neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
- nomenclatures — Plural form of nomenclature.
- non-custodial — of or relating to custody.
- non-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- non-socialist — an advocate or supporter of socialism.
- nonadolescent — Not adolescent.