0%

13-letter words containing l, o, i, r, e, a

  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • rotary tiller — rototiller.
  • rote learning — memorization by repetition
  • royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
  • royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
  • sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • saint leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
  • segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • sensorineural — related to or affecting a sensory nerve or a sensory mechanism together with its neural circuitry.
  • septentrional — northern; boreal
  • serialization — to publish in serial form.
  • serologically — as pertains to or with respect to serology; in a serological manner
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
  • silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
  • silver salmon — coho salmon.
  • sirloin steak — cut of beef
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
  • slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
  • small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
  • social circle — a group of people who are socially connected
  • social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • special offer — bargain
  • special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
  • special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
  • spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • starring role — a main role; the main role
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?