13-letter words containing u, l, a, n, o
- autonomically — autonomous.
- aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
- balloon chuck — a lathe chuck having the form of a hollow hemisphere, for enclosing and holding small parts, as balance staffs of watches, so that only their ends are exposed.
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- beta globulin — a blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
- bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
- bioequivalent — the condition in which different formulations of the same drug or chemical are equally absorbed when taken into the body.
- black country — a district in the English Midlands, around Birmingham: so called from the soot and grime produced by the many local industries.
- bloody sunday — (in Northern Ireland) 30th January 1972, when British soldiers shot dead thirteen marchers in Londonderry who were protesting against the UK government's policy of internment
- body and soul — You use body and soul to mean every part of you, including your mind and your emotions.
- body language — Your body language is the way in which you show your feelings or thoughts to other people by means of the position or movements of your body, rather than with words.
- bonded labour — a system in which a person provides labour in order to pay off debts
- bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
- bougainvillea — Bougainvillea is a climbing plant that has thin, red or purple flowers and grows mainly in hot countries.
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
- boundary line — a line marking one of the edges of a playing area
- brutalization — to make brutal.
- bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- bumble around — When someone bumbles around or bumbles about, they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.
- burial ground — A burial ground is a place where bodies are buried, especially an ancient place.
- cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
- calculational — relating to calculation
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- canon regular — a clergyman of certain religious communities following a monastic rule
- capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
- capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
- carbonneutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
- carnivorously — In a carnivorous manner.
- carrantuohill — a mountain in SW Republic of Ireland, in Macgillicuddy's Reeks in Kerry: the highest peak in Ireland. Height: 1041 m (3414 ft)
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- casualisation — (economics) The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
- casualization — the altering of working practices so that regular workers are re-employed on a casual or short-term basis
- cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
- chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- coco language — (language) (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
- cocultivation — the act of cultivating jointly
- coeducational — A coeducational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
- coeur d'alene — a member of an Indian people in N Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake.