13-letter words containing o, n, l, i, e, r
- 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.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- short selling — a person, as a speculator, who sells short.
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- single-storey — (of a building) having only one floor or level
- sirloin steak — cut of beef
- slender loris — loris (def 1).
- slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
- solar heating — to heat (a building) by means of solar energy.
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- sporopollenin — an inert, tough polymer forming the resistant outer coat of a pollen grain or spore.
- 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.
- squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
- starring role — a main role; the main role
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- sterilization — the act of sterilizing.
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
- supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
- superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
- superregional — involving many regions
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- teleportation — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
- telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the iron lady — a nickname often used to describe female heads of government around the world, meaning 'strong-willed woman'. Most famously used of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 to 1990) Margaret Thatcher
- thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
- thermotensile — of or relating to tensile strength in so far as it is affected by temperature
- torrens title — legal title to land based on record of registration rather than on title deeds
- torrentiality — the quality or state of being torrential
- tour en l'air — a turn executed in the air.
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
- triamcinolone — a synthetic glucocorticoid drug, C 21 H 27 FO 6 , used in the symptomatic treatment of inflammation.
- trilateration — a method of determining the relative positions of three or more points by treating these points as vertices of a triangle or triangles of which the angles and sides can be measured.
- trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
- triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.