13-letter words containing r, e, t, o, u
- supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
- superordinate — of higher degree in condition or rank.
- superposition — the order in which sedimentary strata are superposed one above another.
- superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
- superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- superstitious — of the nature of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition: superstitious fears.
- supervirtuoso — a highly accomplished virtuoso
- support level — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
- support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
- supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
- supreme court — the highest court of the U.S.
- surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- surplus store — a shop that sells used items, or items previously purchased but unused, and no longer needed. The items are often military, government or industrial excess
- surreptitious — obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: a surreptitious glance.
- suspercollate — to hang
- sweet sorghum — sorgo.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
- temerariously — in an audacious manner
- temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
- terbium oxide — an amorphous white powder, Tb 2 O 3 .
- terrace house — a house in a terrace or a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls
- tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- tetrapetalous — having four petals.
- tetrastichous — arranged in a spike of four vertical rows, as flowers.
- there you are — an expression used when handing a person something requested or desired
- thermocurrent — a thermoelectric current.
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
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- thoroughbrace — either of two strong leather straps upon which the body of certain types of carriage is supported
- thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
- three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.
- through stone — perpend1 .
- through-other — confused.
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
- thunderstroke — a stroke of lightning accompanied by thunder.
- tibeto-burman — a subfamily of Sino-Tibetan languages, including especially Tibetan and Burmese.
- time exposure — a long exposure in which the shutter is opened and closed by hand or by a mechanism other than the automatic mechanism of the shutter.
- time-honoured — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- to the ground — completely; absolutely
- toilet humour — scatological or vulgar jokes
- torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
- touch a nerve — to mention or bring to mind a sensitive issue or subject
- tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
- tour en l'air — a turn executed in the air.
- tour operator — agent organizing package holidays