13-letter words containing ot
- isothermobath — a line drawn on a diagram of a vertical section of the ocean connecting all points having equal temperature.
- isotopic spin — a quantum number that is related to the number of different values of electric charge that a given kind of baryon or meson may have. Symbol: I.
- jacket potato — potato: baked in its skin
- john endicott — John, Endecott, John.
- jonathan spot — a disease of stored apples, especially the Jonathan, characterized by circular lesions on the fruit.
- judgment note — Law. a note that expressly authorizes a creditor, in case of default, to seek a judgment in court without notifying the debtor.
- kathenotheism — Belief that multiple deities exist, and different deities are supreme among them at different times.
- kettle-bottom — noting a wide, flat-bottomed hull formerly used for merchant sailing vessels.
- know-nothings — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- kootenay lake — a lake in W Canada, in S British Columbia. 64 miles (103 km) long.
- 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.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laevorotation — a rotation to the left
- laevorotatory — Alternative spelling of levorotatory.
- laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
- law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
- lithotriptist — a person skilled in breaking and removing stones from the bladder
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- lose the plot — go insane
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lymphotrophic — carrying nutrients from the lymph to the tissues.
- magnetomotive — (physics) capable of producing magnetic flux.
- mana motuhake — independence or autonomy
- marginal note — aside
- marx brothers — the. a US family of film comedians, esp Arthur Marx, known as Harpo (1888–1964), Herbert Marx, known as Zeppo (1901–79), Julius Marx, known as Groucho (1890–1977), and Leonard Marx, known as Chico (1886–1961). Their films include Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horsefeathers (1932), Duck Soup (1933), and A Day at the Races (1937)
- matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
- mesi protocol — (processor) Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid. A cache coherency protocol where each cache line is marked with one of the four states. The MESI protocol is used by the Pentium processor.
- mesotheliomas — Plural form of mesothelioma.
- metamorphotic — Of or relating to metamorphosis.
- mezzotintoing — Present participle of mezzotinto.
- micro-scooter — a foldable lightweight aluminium foot-propelled scooter, used by both adults and children
- microteaching — a scaled-down teaching procedure with a few students under controlled conditions, often videotaped in order to analyze teaching techniques and develop new teaching skills.
- microtonalism — The use of microtones in music.
- microtonality — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- mnemotechnics — the process or technique of improving or developing the memory.
- monocotyledon — an angiospermous plant of the class Monocotyledones, characterized by producing seeds with one cotyledon and an endogenous manner of growth.
- monopotassium — (chemistry) monatomic potassium.
- monotelephone — a telephone that communicates a specific frequency of sound
- monoterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C10 skeleton.
- monotheletism — the 7th-century religious doctrine that stated that Christ has only one divine will but both a divine and a human nature
- monothelitism — a person who maintains that Christ has a single theanthropic will.
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- monotonically — of, relating to, or uttered in a monotone: a monotonic delivery of a lecture.
- monotrematous — of or relating to a monotreme.
- moot question — an issue or position which is open to debate