13-letter words containing a, c, u, r, s
- tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
- touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
- trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
- transcaucasia — a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic) area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
- transcultural — across all cultures of the world
- translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- trucial coast — an independent federation in E Arabia, formed in 1971, now comprising seven emirates on the S coast (formerly, Pirate Coast or Trucial Coast) of the Persian Gulf, formerly under British protection: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain, Ras al-Khaimah (joined 1972), and Fujairah. About 32,300 sq. mi. (83,657 sq. km). Capital: Abu Dhabi. Abbreviation: U.A.E.
- trust account — an account of property established with a trust company by a grantor, for distribution during or after the grantor's lifetime.
- trust company — a company or corporation organized to exercise the functions of a trustee, but usually engaging also in other banking and financial activities.
- tussock grass — any of various grasses that grow in tuftlike clumps.
- ultracautious — extremely or excessively cautious
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- unascertained — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
- uncertainness — not definitely ascertainable or fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, dimensions, or quality.
- uncharismatic — (of a person) not charismatic; lacking charisma; dull
- unconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- unconstrained — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- uncreatedness — the condition of being uncreated
- uncustomarily — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- under hatches — below decks
- underclassman — a freshman or sophomore in a secondary school or college.
- undescribable — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- undiscernable — capable of being discerned; distinguishable.
- undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- undistracting — not distracting; not showy or ostentatious
- unicameralism — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
- unnecessarily — not necessary or essential; needless; unessential.
- unrespectable — not able to be respected
- unscavengered — lacking the qualities of having been scavenged
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unscratchable — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- unsecularized — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unspectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- unstercorated — not stercorated or covered in dung
- unstretchable — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- unsuperficial — external or outward: a superficial resemblance.
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- up to scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- upperclassman — a junior or senior in a secondary school or college.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.