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13-letter words containing a, d, n, o, u

  • on a suddenty — suddenly, unexpectedly
  • on your guard — If you are on your guard or on guard, you are being very careful because you think a situation might become difficult or dangerous.
  • onus probandi — the burden of proof.
  • open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • out and about — busy, active outside the home
  • out of danger — no longer at risk
  • out-and-outer — a person who does things with excessive thoroughness; extremist.
  • outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
  • outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
  • outgeneralled — Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
  • outmaneuvered — Simple past tense and past participle of outmaneuver.
  • outmanoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of outmanoeuvre.
  • outrecuidance — (archaic) Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
  • outstandingly — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
  • outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
  • outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
  • over-abundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overabundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overeducation — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • overenamoured — excessively fond
  • pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
  • pandiculation — the act of stretching oneself.
  • parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pharaoh hound — one of a breed of medium-sized gazehounds with a smooth coat, red to tan in color with white markings, and erect ears.
  • platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • point d'appui — a support or prop
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
  • put an end to — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • quarter pound — a unit of weight equal to a quarter of a pound or 4 ounces avoirdupois
  • quarter round — a molding, as on an ovolo, whose section is a quarter circle.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
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