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13-letter words containing e, r, u

  • asexual spore — a spore that is the result of asexual reproduction
  • assault rifle — a firearm that is capable of firing multiple rounds in a very short period
  • asylum seeker — An asylum seeker is a person who is trying to get asylum in a foreign country.
  • at every turn — If you say that something happens at every turn, you are emphasizing that it happens frequently or all the time, usually so that it prevents you from achieving what you want.
  • atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
  • atroceruleous — a deep blue-black color.
  • atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
  • attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
  • attributively — pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
  • aubervilliers — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 63 136 (1999)
  • auctioneering — Present participle of auctioneer.
  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • australianize — (esp of a new immigrant) to adopt or cause to adopt Australian habits and attitudes; integrate into Australian society
  • austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
  • auteur theory — the theory that creative directors are the major force in film-making
  • authenticator — a person or thing that authenticates.
  • authoritative — Someone or something that is authoritative gives an impression of power and importance and is likely to be obeyed.
  • auto-destruct — self-destruct.
  • auto-injector — An auto-injector is a hypodermic syringe that you can use to inject yourself with a liquid.
  • autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
  • autoprojector — (theory)   A self-applicable partial evaluator.
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • averruncation — the act of averting or turning away
  • ayurvedically — As a practitioner of Ayurveda; in an Ayurvedic way.
  • azurmalachite — a blue-green ornamental stone consisting of a mixture of azurite and malachite.
  • baccalaureate — The baccalaureate is an examination taken by students at the age of eighteen in France and some other countries.
  • back pressure — the pressure that opposes the motion of a piston on its exhaust stroke in an internal-combustion engine
  • backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
  • balsam spruce — either of two North American coniferous trees of the genus Picea, P. pungens (the blue spruce) or P. engelmanni
  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • baluster stem — a stem of a drinking glass or the like having a gradual swelling near the top or bottom.
  • bancassurance — the selling of insurance products by a bank to its customers
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • barbarousness — The state or quality of being barbarous.
  • barcoo salute — a movement of the hand to brush flies away from the face
  • barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • baroque organ — a pipe organ dating from or built to the specifications of the baroque period at the time of J. S. Bach.
  • barrel cactus — any of several large, cylindrical, ribbed, spiny cacti of the genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus.
  • barrier-nurse — to tend (infectious patients) in isolation, to prevent the spread of infection
  • baryon number — the number of baryons in a system minus the number of antibaryons
  • bathtub curve — Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it "tires out". See also burn-in period, infant mortality.
  • battlecruiser — A large warship of a type built in the early 20th century, carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored.
  • battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
  • bbn butterfly — (computer)   A supercomputer developed at BBN Technologies, named after the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. It could have up to 512 CPUs connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, albeit with about 15 times the latency than for its own. The earlier GP-1000 models used up to 256 Motorola 68020s. The later TC-2000 models used up to 512 Motorola 88100s. Language developed for, or ported to, the BBN Butterfly were Butterfly Common LISP, Butterfly Scheme, Delirium, and MultiScheme.
  • bearer cheque — a cheque payable to the person who has it
  • beat the drum — a musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.
  • beau brummell — any dandy or fop
  • beauty editor — the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics, etc
  • beauty parlor — A beauty parlor is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example, to have their hair, nails, or makeup done.
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