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

  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • river estuary — a river mouth
  • road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • root pressure — osmotic pressure within the cells of a root system that causes sap to rise through a plant stem to the leaves.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rose-coloured — of the colour rose; rosy
  • rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
  • rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • rouse oneself — to become active or energetic
  • rousseauistic — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
  • rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • runner's high — a state of euphoria experienced during prolonged running or other forms of aerobic, sustained exercise, attributed to an increase of endorphins in the blood.
  • runner's knee — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
  • 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
  • rural science — the study and theory of agriculture, biology, ecology, and associated fields
  • 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
  • rusine antler — an antler resembling that of the sambar.
  • russel crouse — Russel, 1893–1966, U.S. dramatist.
  • russian olive — oleaster.
  • 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.
  • saint laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
  • saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
  • saint-laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sales revenue — the gross income for a business derived from sales of its products or services
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
  • samuel slater — Samuel, 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
  • saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • schuylerville — a village in E New York, on the Hudson: scene of Burgoyne's defeat and surrender in the Battle of Saratoga 1777.
  • sclerocaulous — having a hard, dry stem
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