13-letter words containing g, e, r, o, u
- roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
- rogue dialler — a dial-up connection placed on a computer without the user's knowledge which, when the user tries to connect to the internet, automatically connects to a premium-rate phone number
- rogue program — a computer virus
- rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rouge et noir — a gambling game using cards, played at a table marked with two red and two black diamond-shaped spots on which the players place their stakes.
- rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
- rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
- ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- rumour-monger — If you call someone a rumour-monger, you disapprove of the fact that they spread rumours.
- running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- south georgia — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
- 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.
- spruce grouse — a grouse, Canachites canadensis, of coniferous forests of northern North America, that feeds on evergreen buds and needles.
- stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- supersurgeons — highly skilled surgeon
- surgery hours — the period of time each day when a doctor's surgery or office is open
- sweet sorghum — sorgo.
- teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
- thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- through stone — perpend1 .
- through-other — confused.
- to the ground — completely; absolutely
- tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966