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13-letter words containing t, e, n, u

  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • intrusiveness — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
  • intuitiveness — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
  • japan current — a warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the E coast of Japan towards the North Pacific
  • jejunostomies — Plural form of jejunostomy.
  • jequitinhonha — a river in E Brazil, flowing from the state of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
  • jitterbugging — Present participle of jitterbug.
  • joint venture — business: joint enterprise
  • joint-venture — to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.
  • 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.
  • judgment book — the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.
  • 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.
  • judgment debt — Law. a debt established or confirmed by decree of a court of law.
  • judgment note — Law. a note that expressly authorizes a creditor, in case of default, to seek a judgment in court without notifying the debtor.
  • judgmentalism — Judgmental behaviour or attitude.
  • just a minute — wait, stop
  • just a moment — an expression requesting the hearer to wait or pause for a brief period of time
  • kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
  • keep in touch — stay in contact
  • keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • 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.
  • knuckle joint — a joint forming a knuckle.
  • knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
  • labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
  • lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
  • leg-of-mutton — having the triangular shape of a leg of mutton: leg-of-mutton sail; a dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
  • lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
  • letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • litigiousness — of or relating to litigation.
  • loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved
  • long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
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