13-letter words containing act
- over-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- over-reactive — tending to react.
- pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
- pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
- police action — a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- post-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- practical art — an art or craft, as woodworking or needlework, that serves a utilitarian purpose.
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- radio contact — communication or contact by means of radio waves
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- reaction rate — The reaction rate is the speed at which a reaction happens, measured by the speed at which the feed is consumed or the speed at which the product is formed.
- reaction time — the interval between stimulation and response.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refractometer — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- remanufacture — to refurbish (a used product) by renovating and reassembling its components: to remanufacture a vacuum cleaner.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- rising action — a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- scare tactics — tactics designed to cause fear or alarm
- semi-abstract — pertaining to or designating a style of painting or sculpture in which the subject remains recognizable although the forms are highly stylized in a manner derived from abstract art.
- shock tactics — shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them
- single-acting — (of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.) having pistons accomplishing work only in one direction. Compare double-acting (def 1).
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- skin reaction — an irritation or inflammation of the skin due to an allergy or infection, brought about by natural means or by a skin test.
- smear tactics — actions designed to slander another person or organization in order to damage their reputation
- social action — individual or group behavior that involves interaction with other individuals or groups, especially organized action toward social reform.
- stalactitious — containing stalactites
- subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
- tactical unit — a group organized to function in combat as a self-contained unit.
- tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
- the fact that — You use the fact that after some verbs or prepositions, especially in expressions such as in view of the fact that, apart from the fact that, and despite the fact that, to link the verb or preposition with a clause.
- tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.