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13-letter words containing l, o, u, d

  • quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
  • 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.
  • red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
  • red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
  • 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
  • redissolution — the act of redissolving
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • rogue dialler — a dial-up connection placed on a computer without the user's knowledge which, when the user tries to connect to the internet, automatically connects to a premium-rate phone number
  • rose-coloured — of the colour rose; rosy
  • rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-delusion — the act or fact of deluding oneself.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
  • shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • shoulder loop — a flap on each shoulder of a service uniform on which metallic insignia of rank are worn by commissioned and warrant officers in the Army, Air Force, and Marines.
  • shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
  • sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • solomon gundy — a dish of salted marinated herring in vinegar and spices
  • somar dumpacl — (tool)   A utilty which provides a concise report of Windows NT file system permissions, to help find holes in system security.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • south holland — a province in the SW Netherlands. 1086 sq. mi. (2810 sq. km). Capital: The Hague.
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
  • subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • suicidologist — someone who studies suicidology
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • the dust bowl — the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
  • to hold court — If someone holds court in a place, they are surrounded by a lot of people who are paying them a lot of attention because they are interesting or famous.
  • to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
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