13-letter words containing s, c, t, u
- 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.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- lunar caustic — silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- mariculturist — One who engages in mariculture.
- masculinities — Plural form of masculinity.
- mass spectrum — a spectrum of charged particles, arranged in order of mass or mass-to-charge ratios.
- massachusetts — a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8257 sq. mi. (21,385 sq. km). Capital: Boston. Abbreviation: MA (for use with zip code), Mass.
- mayor's court — a city court presided over by a mayor.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- megastructure — a very large, usually high-rise building or a complex of such buildings used for many purposes, as for apartments, offices, stores, theaters, and athletic facilities.
- 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.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- microcircuits — Plural form of microcircuit.
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- miniaturistic — Employing or suggesting miniaturism; small and detailed.
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- misarticulate — to articulate incorrectly or inaccurately
- miscalculated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalculate.
- miscalculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscalculate.
- miscalculator — A person who miscalculates.
- misconjecture — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- misconstruing — Present participle of misconstrue.
- missouri city — a city in SE Texas.
- monodactylous — having only one digit or claw.
- monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
- mosquito coil — a spiral coil which burns slowly and releases a smoke that prevents mosquitoes from biting
- mount clemens — a city in SE Michigan.
- moustache cup — mustache cup.
- mucocutaneous — Of or pertaining to the mucous membranes and the skin.
- multi-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- multiorgasmic — Capable of multiple orgasms without a refractory period.
- multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
- multipresence — the quality or state of being multipresent
- multisectoral — Involving multiple sectors.
- multispectral — (of an airborne camera or scanner) capable of sensing and recording radiation from invisible as well as visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- multisyllabic — polysyllabic.
- multisystemic — Of, pertaining to or affecting more than one system or organ of the body.
- multitheistic — Of or relating to multitheism.
- muscle tissue — cell tissue that muscles are made of