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13-letter words containing d, e, r, u

  • running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
  • 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
  • ruptured duck — the symbol of an eagle with wings spread appearing in the honorable discharge emblem of the U.S. armed forces.
  • rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • 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.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.
  • second-source — of or pertaining to a cooperative arrangement whereby the products, as electronic parts, of one company are also manufactured by another company
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • semi-delirium — Pathology. a more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterized by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc.
  • semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • serum disease — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
  • sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
  • shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
  • shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • shoulder loop — a flap on each shoulder of a service uniform on which metallic insignia of rank are worn by commissioned and warrant officers in the Army, Air Force, and Marines.
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • shut the door — put up a barrier
  • shutter speed — speed (def 5b).
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
  • smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • soupe du jour — the special, sometimes the only, soup served in a restaurant on any particular day
  • southeastward — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • southwestward — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
  • square-rigged — having square sails as the principal sails.
  • squared paper — graph paper with a pattern of squares formed by lines crossing at right angles.
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