13-letter words containing i, s, d, o, r, u
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- misunderstood — improperly understood or interpreted.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nitrous oxide — a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N 2 O, that sometimes produces a feeling of exhilaration when inhaled: used chiefly as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery, in the manufacture of chemicals, and as an aerosol.
- nondisclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- nondiscursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
- old ritualist — Raskolnik.
- onus probandi — the burden of proof.
- outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
- overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- 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.
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
- rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
- red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
- redissolution — the act of redissolving
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- 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.
- serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
- sodium borate — borax1 .
- 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 library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
- sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
- soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof
- south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
- 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.
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
- subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.