13-letter words containing c, r, o, s, u, i
- good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- 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.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- heteroclitous — heteroclite
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- honoris causa — for the sake of honour
- hortus siccus — a collection of dried plants; herbarium.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyposulphuric — relating to sulphur which is in a lower state of oxidation than it is in sulphuric compounds
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
- incongruences — not congruent.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incuriousness — The state of being incurious; indifference or apathy.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- insurrections — Plural form of insurrection.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- introductions — Plural form of introduction.
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
- justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- lissotrichous — having straight hair.
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- microbusiness — A business that operates on a very small scale.
- microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.