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13-letter words that end in ine

  • overdetermine — Determine, account for, or cause (something) in more than one way or with more conditions than are necessary.
  • oxymetazoline — a sympathomimetic drug, C 1 6 H 2 4 N 2 O, used as a topical, long-lasting nasal decongestant.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • penicillamine — a chelating agent, C 5 H 1 1 NO 2 S, produced by the degradation of penicillin, used in the treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis and in heavy metal poisoning.
  • perivitelline — located around the vitellus (yolk) of an egg
  • petrol engine — an internal-combustion engine that uses petrol as fuel
  • phencyclidine — an anesthetic drug, C 1 7 H 2 5 N, used as an animal tranquilizer: also widely used in several forms as an illicit hallucinogen.
  • phenmetrazine — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO, used chiefly to control the appetite in the treatment of obesity.
  • phenothiazine — Chemistry. a grayish-green to greenish-yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 2 H 9 NS, used chiefly as an insecticide and vermifuge, and in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
  • phenylalanine — a crystalline, water-soluble, essential amino acid, C 6 H 5 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, necessary to the nutrition of humans and most animals, obtained chiefly from egg white or skim milk. Symbol: F. Abbreviation: Phe;
  • phenylephrine — an alpha-adrenergic stimulant, C 1 9 H 1 3 NO 2 , used chiefly as a nasal decongestant.
  • photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
  • physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
  • piston engine — reciprocating engine.
  • plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
  • plimsoll line — load line (def 1).
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • position line — line of position.
  • potato famine — a severe shortage of food caused by the failure of the potato crop
  • prince's pine — pipsissewa
  • prince's-pine — pipsissewa.
  • protriptyline — a white to yellow powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 N, used for the treatment of depression.
  • puncture vine — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
  • radial engine — an internal-combustion engine having the cylinders arranged in radial opposition, found mainly on older aircraft.
  • railroad line — railway route
  • rain or shine — regardless of the weather or circumstances; in any event: The concert will be held, rain or shine. He's always a reliable friend, rain or shine.
  • ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
  • rhadamanthine — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
  • rocket engine — a reaction engine that produces a thrust due to an exhaust consisting entirely of material, as oxidizer, fuel, and inert matter, that has been carried with the engine in the vehicle it propels, none of the propellant being derived from the medium through which the vehicle moves.
  • rotary engine — an engine, as a turbine, in which the impelling fluid produces torque directly rather than by acting upon reciprocating parts.
  • sabin vaccine — an orally administered vaccine of live viruses for immunization against poliomyelitis.
  • scanning line — (in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Compare frame (def 9).
  • search engine — a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
  • shipping line — a business that operates ships, which it may or may not own
  • six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
  • skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
  • sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • speeding fine — a fine for breaking the speed limit while driving a vehicle
  • st. augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
  • stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
  • starting line — marking at beginning of a race
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • stripped pine — natural pine from which any varnish or painted finish has been removed
  • subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
  • sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
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