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

  • status report — statement or update
  • statutory law — the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
  • stercoraceous — consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to dung or feces.
  • stercorarious — stercoraceous
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
  • stirrup pants — close-fitting pants with a stirruplike strap, at the end of each leg, to be positioned under the arch of the foot
  • stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • 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.
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • stratocumulus — a cloud of a class characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus and the whole being at a lower altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
  • 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
  • streptocarpus — any of various plants belonging to the genus Streptocarpus, of the gesneria family, native to Africa and Asia, having showy white, pink, or purplish flowers and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • 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
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • stuffed derma — kishke.
  • sub-aggregate — formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined: the aggregate amount of indebtedness.
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
  • subculturally — in a subcultural manner or way
  • subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
  • subderivative — a word derived from a derivative.
  • subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • subliterature — writing below the standards of literature as an art form.
  • subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subsaturation — the act or process of saturating.
  • subternatural — falling below what is accepted as natural; less than natural
  • subterraneous — existing, situated, or operating below the surface of the earth; underground.
  • subtriangular — almost triangular;not quite triangular
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
  • sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
  • summarization — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
  • sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
  • sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • suovetaurilia — (in ancient Rome) a sacrifice of a hog, a ram, and a bull.
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