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13-letter words containing l, o, n, r

  • roentgenology — the branch of medicine dealing with diagnosis and therapy through x-rays.
  • role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
  • roll-your-own — a cigarette that one has rolled oneself.
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • rolling hitch — a hitch on a spar or the like, composed of two round turns and a half hitch so disposed as to jam when a stress is applied parallel to the object on which the hitch is made.
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • rolling stock — the wheeled vehicles of a railroad, including locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars.
  • rolling stone — person: nomadic
  • roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
  • roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
  • roman numeral — one of the numerals in the ancient Roman system of notation, still used for certain limited purposes, as in some pagination, dates on buildings, etc. The common basic symbols are I, (=1), V, (=5), X, (=10), L, (=50), C, (=100), D, (=500), and M, (=1000). The Roman numerals for one to nine are: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX. A bar over a letter multiplies it by 1000; thus, X̅ equals 10,000. Integers are written according to these two rules: If a letter is immediately followed by one of equal or lesser value, the two values are added; thus, XX equals 20, XV equals 15, VI equals 6. If a letter is immediately followed by one of greater value, the first is subtracted from the second; thus, IV equals 4, XL equals 40, CM equals 900. Examples: XLVII(=47), CXVI(=116), MCXX(=1120), MCMXIV(=1914). Roman numerals may be written in lowercase letters, though they appear more commonly in capitals.
  • romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • rote learning — memorization by repetition
  • roughing mill — a rolling mill for converting steel ingots into blooms, billets, or slabs.
  • rouse oneself — to become active or energetic
  • route planner — a book of road maps
  • royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
  • royal warrant — an authorization to a tradesman to supply goods to a royal household
  • rum rebellion — the deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808 by officers of the New South Wales Corps, caused by his interference in their trading activities, esp in the trafficking of rum
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • running total — a running total is a total which changes because numbers keep being added to it as something progresses
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • sacralization — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
  • saint leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
  • salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
  • saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • school dinner — meal served at educational institution
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • 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.
  • selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
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