13-letter words containing a, s, t, u, r
- urban studies — the various disciplines associated with the study of urban areas, including urban planning, urban economics and urban architecture
- uttar pradesh — a state in N India: a former province of British India. 93,933 sq. mi. (243,286 sq. km). Capital: Lucknow.
- varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- visual artist — someone involved in the arts of painting, sculpting, photography, etc, as opposed to music, drama, and literature
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
- water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
- water opossum — yapok.
- water-soluble — capable of dissolving in water.
- waterthrushes — Plural form of waterthrush.
- weather house — a model house with two human figures, one that comes out to foretell bad weather and the other to foretell good weather
- what's yours? — what would you like to drink?
- white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- with pleasure — gladly, willingly
- without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
- x-ray burster — a celestial source from which bursts of x-rays are received.
- xanthochroous — light-skinned and fair-haired
- zarathustrian — Zoroaster.
- zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.