13-letter words containing a, k, s, u
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
- sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
- supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- take measures — act, do sth practical
- thousand oaks — a town in S California.
- to run a risk — If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result.
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
- tubular skate — a type of ice skate consisting of a steel blade set into an aluminum tube and connected to the shoe by tubular supports, used for both hockey and racing skates.
- tussock grass — any of various grasses that grow in tuftlike clumps.
- undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
- unimak island — an island in SW Alaska, in the E part of the Aleutian Islands: largest and easternmost of the Aleutian Islands. About 70 miles (110 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- winnepesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- winnipesaukee — Lake, a lake in central New Hampshire: summer resort. 25 miles (40 km) long.
- yang shangkun — 1907–98, Chinese Communist leader: president 1988–99.
- yuan shih-kai — 1859–1916, president of China 1912–16.