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13-letter words containing r, e, a, s, u, i

  • nectarivorous — feeding on nectar
  • nefariousness — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
  • neosurrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
  • neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
  • neurilemmomas — Plural form of neurilemmoma.
  • neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
  • neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • non-insurance — the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one's person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved.
  • non-vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
  • nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
  • nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
  • nudiustertian — (rare, obsolete) Of the day before yesterday.
  • oceanic crust — the brown, hard outer portion or surface of a loaf or slice of bread (distinguished from crumb).
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
  • overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
  • overstimulate — to stimulate too much
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
  • perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
  • perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
  • perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
  • perspicacious — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
  • pet insurance — health insurance for a pet
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • pleasure trip — holiday, vacation
  • plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
  • plural eulisp — EuLisp with parallel extensions. "Collections and Garbage Collection", S.C. Merall et al, in Memory Management - IWMM92, Springer 1992, pp.473-489.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
  • private trust — a trust designed for the benefit of a designated or known individual (opposed to charitable trust).
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
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