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

  • intravalvular — Between valves.
  • intravascular — within the blood vessels.
  • intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
  • intuitionally — With intuition.
  • involuntarily — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
  • involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
  • isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
  • japan current — a warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the E coast of Japan towards the North Pacific
  • jequitinhonha — a river in E Brazil, flowing from the state of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • light quantum — photon.
  • lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
  • linguistician — linguist (def 1).
  • liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
  • 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 fin tuna — a tunny, Thunnus alalunga, occurring mainly in warm regions of the Atlantic and Pacific. It has very long pectoral fins and is a valued food fish
  • lounge jacket — a man's jacket for formal use during the daytime where a suit is not required
  • lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
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