13-letter words containing t, o, n, e, c, l
- long-distance — of, from, or between distant places: a long-distance phone call.
- lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
- lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
- love-stricken — If you describe someone as love-stricken, you mean that they are so much in love that they are behaving in a strange and foolish way.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
- luncheonettes — Plural form of luncheonette.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- 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.
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- metencephalon — the anterior section of the hindbrain, comprising the cerebellum and pons.
- metonic cycle — a cycle of 235 synodic months, very nearly equal to 19 years, after which the new moon occurs on the same day of the year as at the beginning of the cycle with perhaps a shift of one day, depending on the number of leap years in the cycle.
- metonymically — In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy.
- microelements — Plural form of microelement.
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- micronucleate — having a micronucleus.
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- monocotyledon — an angiospermous plant of the class Monocotyledones, characterized by producing seeds with one cotyledon and an endogenous manner of growth.
- mononucleated — having a single nucleus
- montes claros — a city in E Brazil.
- mount clemens — a city in SE Michigan.
- multi-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- multiloquence — the quality of being excessively talkative; loquaciousness
- nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
- necessitously — In a necessitous way.
- necromantical — Alternative form of necromantic.
- nematological — of or pertaining to nematology
- neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
- neocapitalist — a person who advocates neocapitalism
- neoclassicist — (sometimes initial capital letter) belonging or pertaining to a revival of classic styles or something that is held to resemble classic styles, as in art, literature, music, or architecture.
- neoglaciation — a phase of renewed glaciation associated with a readvance of ice sheets between the postglacial phase and the present.
- neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nephelometric — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nitroglycerin — a colorless, thick, oily, flammable, highly explosive, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 5 N 3 O 9 , prepared from glycerol with nitric and sulfuric acids: used chiefly as a constituent of dynamite and other explosives, in rocket propellants, and in medicine as a vasodilator in the treatment of angina pectoris.
- nomenclatural — a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
- nomenclatures — Plural form of nomenclature.
- non-dialectic — of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
- non-excitable — easily excited: Prima donnas had the reputation of being excitable and temperamental.
- non-inflected — to modulate (the voice).
- non-lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- non-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.