13-letter words containing s, e, n, r
- alice springs — a town in central Australia, in the Northern Territory, in the Macdonnell Ranges. Pop: 23 640 (2001)
- alkane series — the homologous series of saturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons having the general formula C n H 2n+2 , as methane, CH 4 , or ethane, C 2 H 6 .
- alkene series — the homologous series of unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbons containing one double bond and having the general formula C n H 2n , as ethylene, H 2 C=CH 2 .
- alliterations — Plural form of alliteration.
- alongshoreman — a person employed to load and unload ships
- alphanumerics — Plural form of alphanumeric.
- alterableness — The state or quality of being alterable.
- alternateness — The state or quality of being alternate.
- alternativism — The rejection of a social normality through the pursuit of alternatives.
- aluminiferous — containing or yielding aluminium or alumina
- amarantaceous — amaranthine
- amorphousness — lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.
- amphotericins — Plural form of amphotericin.
- anagrammatise — To produce an anagram of (a piece of text).
- anchorpersons — Plural form of anchorperson.
- andersen nexo — Nexö, Martin Andersen.
- andersonville — town in SW central Ga.: site of a Confederate prison in the Civil War
- androcentrism — centered on, emphasizing, or dominated by males or masculine interests: an androcentric society; an androcentric religion.
- androdioecism — the state of being androdioecious
- angel's share — the amount of alcoholic liquor that evaporates during distillation.
- angiospermous — of or relating to an angiosperm; having enclosed seeds.
- angular house — any of the four astrological houses that begin at the angles: the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth houses, that correspond, respectively, to self, home, others, and career.
- animadversion — criticism or censure
- anise camphor — anethole.
- anisometropia — an imbalance in the power of the two eyes to refract light
- anisometropic — relating to anisometropia
- anna christie — a play (1921) by Eugene O'Neill.
- anniversaries — Plural form of anniversary.
- annular space — An annular space is a ring-shaped space outside the drillpipe, through which mud and cuttings are removed.
- another-guess — of another kind.
- answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
- ante-christum — before Christ. Abbreviation: A.C.
- antenniferous — having antennae
- anti-universe — a universe made up of antimatter, postulated to exist far out in space
- anticorrosive — preventing corrosion
- antidiuretics — Plural form of antidiuretic.
- antielectrons — Plural form of antielectron.
- antimodernism — modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
- antimodernist — opposed to modernism
- antineutrinos — Plural form of antineutrino.
- antioestrogen — a drug that inhibits the activity of oestrogens
- antiparticles — Plural form of antiparticle.
- antipersonnel — (of weapons, etc) designed to cause casualties to personnel rather than to destroy equipment or defences
- antiphonaries — Plural form of antiphonary.
- antirecession — acting against recession
- antireformers — Plural form of antireformer.
- antireligious — opposed to religious ideas, beliefs, and organizations
- antiresonance — a phenomenon in an electric, acoustic, or other such system in which the impedance is tending to infinity.
- antisense rna — molecules transcribed, not from DNA in the usual way, but from DNA strands complementary to those that produce normal messenger RNA. Antisense RNA occurs in nature and is inhibitory on gene action. It can be produced synthetically and offers such therapeutic possibilities as turning off viral genes
- antisterility — free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments.