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13-letter words containing a, l, u, s

  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
  • sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • saturnalianly — in a saturnalian or dissolute manner
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
  • schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
  • sclerocaulous — having a hard, dry stem
  • scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
  • scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • see you later — an expression of farewell
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
  • semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
  • semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
  • seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
  • sensorineural — related to or affecting a sensory nerve or a sensory mechanism together with its neural circuitry.
  • sequentiality — characterized by regular sequence of parts.
  • serial number — a number, usually one of a series, assigned for identification: the serial number of an automobile engine.
  • serum albumin — Biochemistry. the principal protein of blood plasma, important in osmotic regulation of the blood and transport of metabolites.
  • sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
  • sexual health — health care and counselling related to sexual relations, reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, etc
  • sexualization — to render sexual; endow with sexual characteristics.
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shaver outlet — a point in a wall, esp in a bathroom, where you can connect an electric razor to the power supply
  • shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
  • shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
  • shulhan arukh — an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom compiled by the Talmudic scholar Joseph Caro (1488–1575), the original edition published in Vienna in 1565 emphasizing the practices of Sephardic Jews.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • sign language — Also called sign. any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people.
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
  • sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
  • sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
  • situationally — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • snowball bush — guelder rose.
  • social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
  • sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
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