13-letter words containing t, a, u
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- japan current — a warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the E coast of Japan towards the North Pacific
- jebel toubkal — a mountain in SW Morocco: highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. 13,671 feet (4167 meters).
- jequitinhonha — a river in E Brazil, flowing from the state of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- jesuit's bark — cinchona (def 2).
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- john of gaunt — John of, John of Gaunt.
- joint account — a bank account in the names of two or more persons or parties and subject to withdrawals by each.
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- juan de onate — Juan de [hwahn de] /ʰwɑn dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1550?–1624, Spanish explorer who colonized New Mexico.
- judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
- judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
- junior rating — a military rank for non-officer personnel in the navy
- just a minute — wait, stop
- just a moment — an expression requesting the hearer to wait or pause for a brief period of time
- just the same — identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned: This street is the same one we were on yesterday.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- justin martyr — Saint, a.d. c100–163? early church historian and philosopher.
- juxtaposition — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
- kemal ataturk — (Mustafa or Mustapha Kemal"Kemal Pasha") 1881–1938, Turkish general: president of Turkey 1923–38.
- kentucky lake — reservoir in SW Ky. & W Tenn., on the Tennessee River: 247 sq mi (640 sq km); 184 mi (296 km) long
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- key signature — (in notation) the group of sharps or flats placed after the clef to indicate the tonality of the music following.
- kick upstairs — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- kota kinabalu — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
- kwazulu-natal — a province of NE South Africa; replaced the former province of Natal in 1994: service industries. Capital: Pietermaritzburg. Pop: 10 267 300 (2011 est). Area: 92 180 sq km (35 591 sq miles)
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- language arts — study of reading and writing
- last judgment — judgment (def 8).
- latin quarter — the quarter of Paris on the south side of the Seine, especially frequented for centuries by students, writers, and artists.
- latitudinally — of or relating to latitude.
- 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.
- laughter club — a group of people who meet regularly to take part in communal laughing for therapeutic effect
- laurel wreath — a wreath of interlocking laurel leaves and branches, which can be worn on the head to represent victory
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- least squares — a method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.