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13-letter words containing s, e, n

  • aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
  • athenagoras i — (Aristocles Spyrou) 1886–1972, Archbishop Ecumenical of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church 1948–72.
  • atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
  • atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
  • attentiveness — characterized by or giving attention; observant: an attentive audience.
  • attitudinizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attitudinize.
  • auction house — a commercial company that specializes in selling items at auction
  • audaciousness — Risky or daring behaviour.
  • augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
  • austenitizing — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
  • australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
  • austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
  • authenticates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authenticate.
  • autodigestion — (biology) The digestion of tissue by enzymes produced by the organism itself.
  • automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • availableness — Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
  • awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
  • baby snatcher — a person who steals a baby from its pram
  • back emission — the secondary emission of electrons from an anode
  • backbone site — A key Usenet, electronic mail and/or Internet site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps. Notable backbone sites as of early 1993 include uunet and the mail machines at Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, DEC's Western Research Laboratories, Ohio State University and the University of Texas. Compare rib site, leaf site.
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • backing store — a computer storage device, usually a disk, that provides additional storage space for information so that it can be accessed and referred to when required and may be copied into the processor if needed
  • bacteriolysin — an antibody which, when it combines with bacterial cells, causes lysis of those cells, thus destroying them
  • baker's dozen — thirteen
  • balance shaft — a shaft in a vehicle engine that is designed to reduce the amount of vibration from other moving parts as it rotates
  • balance sheet — A balance sheet is a written statement of the amount of money and property that a company or person has, including amounts of money that are owed or are owing. Balance sheet is also used to refer to the general financial state of a company.
  • balance staff — a pivoted axle or shaft on which the balance is mounted.
  • balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
  • balkan states — the countries of the Balkan Peninsula: the former Yugoslavian Republics, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and the European part of Turkey
  • ballet lesson — a class in which ballet is taught
  • balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
  • banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
  • bancassurance — the selling of insurance products by a bank to its customers
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.
  • bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
  • bang goes sth — If you say bang goes something, you mean that it is now obvious that it cannot succeed or be achieved.
  • banister back — a back of a chair or the like, usually having semicircular spindles between the top rail and the cross rail or seat.
  • bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
  • bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
  • banker's bill — a banknote
  • banking house — a more formal term for a bank
  • bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
  • barbarousness — The state or quality of being barbarous.
  • barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
  • barnsbreaking — noisy and exuberant activity; boisterous mischief-making
  • barrier-nurse — to tend (infectious patients) in isolation, to prevent the spread of infection
  • base exchange — a nonprofit general store at a military base, for the sale of merchandise for personal use, refreshments, etc.
  • base on balls — walk
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