13-letter words containing l, a, r, o, u
- pluralization — to receive or take a plural form.
- poet laureate — (in Great Britain) a poet appointed for life as an officer of the royal household, formerly expected to write poems in celebration of court and national events.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- popular front — a coalition, usually temporary, of leftist and sometimes centrist political parties, formed against a common opponent, as fascism, and promoting social reform.
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- port du salut — Port-Salut.
- port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- power failure — electricity outage
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadrilocular — having four compartments
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- rabble-rouser — a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests; demagogue.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
- rattle around — If you say that someone rattles around in a room or other space, you mean that the space is too large for them.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- recalculation — recount, act of computing again
- recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- reinoculation — a further inoculation of the same organism as the first inoculation
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).