13-letter words containing e, m, u, l, a
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
- subassemblage — a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
- sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
- sulfanilamide — a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.
- sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- supermilitant — highly militant
- supersalesman — an extremely skillful and effective salesperson.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
- supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
- sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
- sweet alyssum — a garden plant, Lobularia maritima, of the mustard family, having narrow leaves and small, white or violet flowers.
- sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- temerariously — in an audacious manner
- temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
- terbium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the cerium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- the sum total — the result you get when you add numbers or amounts together
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
- total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- trumpet blast — the sound of a single note made by a trumpet
- tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- ultrafeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- umbrella bird — any of several large trogons of the genus Cephalopterus, of Central and South America, as C. ornatus, having an umbrellalike crest above the head.
- umbrella leaf — a rare, large-leaved perennial herb, Diphylleia cymosa, of the southeastern U.S., having white flowers and small, blue berries.
- umbrella palm — an Australian feather palm, Hedyscepe canterburyana, characterized by the umbrellalike manner of growth of its leaves.
- umbrella pine — a Japanese evergreen tree, Sciadopitys verticillata, having linear leaves growing in umbrellalike whorls, cultivated as an ornamental.
- umbrella step — (in the game of giant steps) a step executed by extending one foot forward and whirling on the heel.
- umbrella tent — a small tent with a metal frame consisting of ribs that radiate from a single supporting pole.
- umbrella tree — an American magnolia, Magnolia tripetala, having large leaves in umbrellalike clusters.
- unamiableness — the state or quality of being unamiable or ill-tempered
- unassimilable — capable of being assimilated.
- unassimilated — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- uncommendable — not able to be commended; unworthy of commendation; reprehensible