13-letter words containing c, o, l, u, r, e
- ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- high-coloured — (of the complexion) deep red or purplish; florid
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydrotelluric — (chemistry) Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
- incongruently — not congruent.
- inconquerable — That cannot be conquered; unconquerable.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
- intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
- interlocution — conversation; dialogue.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interlocutory — of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation: interlocutory instruction.
- interlocutrix — A female interlocutor.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- lunch counter — a counter, as in a store or restaurant, where light meals and snacks are served or are sold to be taken out.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- macromolecule — a very large molecule, as a colloidal particle, protein, or especially a polymer, composed of hundreds or thousands of atoms.
- macronucleate — having a macronucleus.
- many-coloured — having many colours
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
- microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- micronucleate — having a micronucleus.
- middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
- monomolecular — noting or pertaining to a thickness of one molecule.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multicoloured — Alternative spelling of multicolored.