13-letter words containing o, u, s, e, l
- the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
- the sum total — the result you get when you add numbers or amounts together
- to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
- total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
- tous-les-mois — a large-grained farinaceous food resembling arrowroot, obtained from a South American canna, Canna edulis, and used in baby food.
- tout ensemble — all together.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- tremulousness — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
- triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
- trous-de-loup — a conical or pyramidal pit with a pointed stake fixed vertically in the center, rows of which are dug in front of a fortification to hinder an enemy's approach, formerly used chiefly against cavalry.
- truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
- tunnel vision — a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube, symptomatic of retinitis pigmentosa.
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- un-personable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- uncloudedness — the quality or state of being unclouded or free of clouds
- uncontestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
- undeleterious — injurious to health: deleterious gases.
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- unforeseeable — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- unforeseeably — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- unmetabolised — not metabolised
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unpostponable — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- unremorseless — lacking all remorse or regret
- unresponsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unsensational — not sensational
- unsmotherable — unquenchable
- unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
- unsuperfluous — not superfluous or excessive; moderate
- unsupportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- unsupportedly — in an unsupported fashion, without support
- unupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
- ustilagineous — belonging to the Ustilaginales, an order of fungi that cause plant disease
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.