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13-letter words containing r, e, p, u, c

  • quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
  • red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
  • redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • repercussions — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
  • ruptured duck — the symbol of an eagle with wings spread appearing in the honorable discharge emblem of the U.S. armed forces.
  • sacral plexus — a nerve network originating from the nerves of the sacral spine and innervating large areas of the lower trunk and legs, especially via the sciatic nerves.
  • sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
  • sculpturesque — suggesting sculpture: the sculpturesque beauty of her face.
  • 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.
  • semi-precious — Semi-precious stones are stones such as turquoises and amethysts that are used in jewellery but are less valuable than precious stones such as diamonds and rubies.
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
  • spruce grouse — a grouse, Canachites canadensis, of coniferous forests of northern North America, that feeds on evergreen buds and needles.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
  • stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
  • streptocarpus — any of various plants belonging to the genus Streptocarpus, of the gesneria family, native to Africa and Asia, having showy white, pink, or purplish flowers and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • streptococcus — any of several spherical or oval bacteria of the genus Streptococcus, occurring in pairs or chains, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans, causing scarlet fever, tonsillitis, etc.
  • subappearance — a slight appearance
  • subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • successorship — the position or state of a successor
  • super-culture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
  • superachiever — someone who achieves more than most; high achiever
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • supercalender — a roll or set of rolls for giving a high, smooth finish to paper.
  • supercautious — very or extremely cautious
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
  • supercolossal — greater than colossal, huge, enormous
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • supercomputer — a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • supercritical — extremely critical.
  • superencipher — to encode (a message) that is already a cryptogram.
  • superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
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