13-letter words containing n, u, d, e
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
- record button — the button that you press on a device or remote control to begin recording sound, images, etc
- recrudescence — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
- rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
- red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- redissolution — the act of redissolving
- reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- return-cocked — (of a cock bead) situated at an angle or arris.
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- round of beef — round1 (def 35a).
- round-cheeked — having plump cheeks
- round-tripper — a home run.
- rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
- rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
- rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
- ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
- saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
- second cousin — a child of a first cousin of one's parent. Compare cousin (def 1).
- second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.
- second-source — of or pertaining to a cooperative arrangement whereby the products, as electronic parts, of one company are also manufactured by another company
- seductiveness — tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating: a seductive smile.
- selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
- self-delusion — the act or fact of deluding oneself.
- self-doubting — lacking in confidence
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-judgment — the act or fact of judging oneself.
- semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
- serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- sex education — Sex education is education in schools on the subject of sexual activity and sexual relationships.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- 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.
- shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
- sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
- single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.