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13-letter words containing c, i, r, u, s, e

  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • pre-discussed — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
  • price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • re-instructed — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
  • reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
  • rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
  • recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
  • red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • repercussions — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
  • resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
  • revascularize — to surgically improve the blood circulation of (an organ or area of the body).
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • rousseauistic — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • rural science — the study and theory of agriculture, biology, ecology, and associated fields
  • saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • security risk — a person considered by authorities as likely to commit acts that might threaten the security of a country.
  • security zone — an area controlled by security forces
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
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