13-letter words containing r, o, s, a, n, e
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- risk aversion — a strong disinclination to take risks
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
- robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
- robber barons — History/Historical. a noble who robbed travelers passing through his lands.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- rose d'anvers — a gem having a rose cut of 12 or fewer facets.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- rosetta stone — a stone slab, found in 1799 near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
- rotation-axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- russian olive — oleaster.
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
- saint gregory — Saint (Hildebrand) c1020–85, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1073–85.
- saint leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
- saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scenarization — the process of making or creating a scenario, esp to aid distance learning education
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- sea transport — transport by ship over the sea
- second nature — an acquired habit or tendency in one's character that is so deeply ingrained as to appear automatic: Neatness is second nature to him.
- second of arc — second2 (def 4).
- second papers — the documents by which an alien formerly made application for U.S. citizenship after having earlier filed a declaration of intention
- second reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts services and reads from the Scriptures.
- second-grader — a pupil who is in the second grade
- secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
- secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
- sectorization — the act or state of sectorizing
- segregational — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- send away for — order by post