13-letter words containing l, a, u, r, y
- 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.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
- quadratically — square.
- quadrennially — Every four years.
- quadrupedally — In the manner of an animal that walks on four feet or four legs.
- quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
- qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
- quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quasi-crystal — a group of atoms resembling a crystal but not having symmetrical plane faces
- quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- running belay — the clipping of the rope through a karabiner attached to a sling, piton, nut, etc, secured to the mountain: used by a leading climber of a team to reduce the length of a possible fall
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- saturnalianly — in a saturnalian or dissolute manner
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
- security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
- see you later — an expression of farewell
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
- southeasterly — coming from the south east
- spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- 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.
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- squash player — a person who plays squash
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- statutory law — the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.
- subculturally — in a subcultural manner or way
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
- sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
- sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
- sunray pleats — bias-cut knife pleats that are narrower at the top than at the bottom, producing a flared effect, used esp for skirts
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superlatively — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.