13-letter words containing ale
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
- magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
- mare australe — (Southern Sea) an area near the south pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- moderate gale — a wind of 32–38 miles per hour (14–17 m/sec).
- multitalented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
- munsell scale — a standard chromaticity scale used in specifying colour. It gives approximately equal changes in visual hue
- new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
- new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
- nominal scale — a discrete classification of data, in which data are neither measured nor ordered but subjects are merely allocated to distinct categories: for example, a record of students' course choices constitutes nominal data which could be correlated with school results
- non-dialectic — of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
- nonequivalent — Not equivalent; different.
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- octagon scale — a scale used in laying out octagonal figures of various sizes.
- ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
- paleethnology — (formerly) the branch of ethnology concerned with the earliest or most primitive human societies.
- paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- paleopedology — the branch of pedology dealing with the soils of past geologic ages.
- paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
- paleotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Ethiopian and Oriental regions.
- palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
- point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- quinquevalent — pentavalent.
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- réaumur scale — René Antoine Ferchault de [ruh-ney ahn-twan fer-shoh duh] /rəˈneɪ ɑ̃ˈtwan fɛrˈʃoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
- record dealer — a person who buys and sells vinyl records
- retail dealer — seller
- richter scale — a scale, ranging from 1 to 10, for indicating the intensity of an earthquake.
- saleleaseback — leaseback.
- sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
- sales leaflet — a leaflet or brochure used by a company to promote its goods, products, or services to the public
- sales manager — leader of a sales team
- sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
- sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
- sales revenue — the gross income for a business derived from sales of its products or services
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scene-stealer — a performer in a play, motion picture, etc., who by charm, talent, or artifice, draws most of the audience's attention, often away from the leading performers.
- sealed orders — written instructions that are not to be read until a specified time
- sidewalk sale — a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.
- sliding scale — a variable scale, especially of industrial costs, as wages, that may be adapted to changes in demand.
- supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
- supersalesman — an extremely skillful and effective salesperson.
- tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
- the paleocene — the Paleocene Epoch or its rocks