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13-letter words containing a, r, i, u, s

  • shaving brush — a short, cylindrical brush with long, soft, bristles, used in lathering the face before shaving.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • siberian ruby — a red tourmaline used as a gem: not a true ruby.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • 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.
  • sociocultural — of, relating to, or signifying the combination or interaction of social and cultural elements.
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
  • sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
  • south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
  • soviet russia — a conventional name of the Soviet Union.
  • space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
  • square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
  • square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
  • square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • square-rigger — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
  • squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • stercorarious — stercoraceous
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • stirrup pants — close-fitting pants with a stirruplike strap, at the end of each leg, to be positioned under the arch of the foot
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • structuralism — any theory that embodies structural principles.
  • structuralist — any theory that embodies structural principles.
  • structuralize — to form into or make part of a structure.
  • structuration — the act of giving structure to something
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sub-librarian — an assistant or junior librarian
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
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