13-letter words containing r, i, e, m, a
- ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
- ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- ultrafeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- umbrella bird — any of several large trogons of the genus Cephalopterus, of Central and South America, as C. ornatus, having an umbrellalike crest above the head.
- umbrella pine — a Japanese evergreen tree, Sciadopitys verticillata, having linear leaves growing in umbrellalike whorls, cultivated as an ornamental.
- under-meaning — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
- underestimate — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
- undeterminate — not definite or determined; indeterminate
- unicameralism — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
- unilateralism — the advocacy or pursuit of a unilateral policy, especially in disarmament.
- unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
- uninformative — not educational
- unministerial — not befitting a minister, esp relating to a head of a government department
- unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
- unreclaimable — not able to be reclaimed, reformed, or rescued from vice
- unreclaimably — in an unreclaimable manner
- unreprimanded — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- unsymmetrical — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- untransmitted — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- uranium oxide — any of the compounds of uranium and oxygen, as UO 2 , UO 3 , U 4 O 9 , or U 3 O 8 .
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
- vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
- variety meats — processed meat, such as sausage, or offal
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernis martin — a finish for furniture, invented in France in the 18th century in imitation of Chinese lacquer.
- vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- viola d'amore — a treble viol with numerous sympathetic strings and several gut strings, producing a resonant sound.
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
- wearisomeness — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
- whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
- white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- wild bergamot — a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- williams pear — a variety of pear that has large yellow juicy sweet fruit