13-letter words containing d, a, u, e, r, s
- inter-assured — to make (a future event) sure; ensure: This contract assures the company's profit this month.
- loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- mass murderer — A mass murderer is someone who deliberately kills a large number of people illegally.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- midsummer day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
- misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- monosaturated — (organic chemistry, of a glyceride) Having one saturated fatty acid.
- multistranded — having several strands
- muzzleloaders — Plural form of muzzleloader.
- neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
- non-dangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- nudiustertian — (rare, obsolete) Of the day before yesterday.
- oversaturated — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- pedal pushers — women's short trousers
- pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
- pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- quasi-retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
- queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
- refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
- ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
- saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.