13-letter words containing r, o, u, e
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interpunction — the insertion of punctuation marks in a piece of writing
- interreligous — Between religions.
- interruptions — an act or instance of interrupting.
- intervolution — (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
- involute gear — a gear tooth form that is generated by involute geometry
- irreligiously — In an irreligious fashion.
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- joint venture — business: joint enterprise
- joint-venture — to establish or enter a joint venture or partnership.
- journal entry — sth written in a diary
- journeyperson — A journeyman or journeywoman.
- junior league — any local branch of a women's organization, the Association of the Junior Leagues of America, Inc., the members of which are engaged in volunteer welfare work, civic affairs, etc.
- justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
- leptokurtosis — the state of being leptokurtic.
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
- libel tourism — the act of suing a writer for alleged defamation in a foreign jurisdiction where there are weak libel laws.
- libel tourist — someone who engages in libel tourism.
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
- long trousers — full-length trousers (as opposed to shorts)
- longsuffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- lord's supper — the, the sacrament in commemoration of the Last Supper; communion; Mass; Eucharist.
- loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
- louis pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- lounge around — to pass time idly and indolently.
- lounge lizard — a foppish man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- lower burrell — a city in SW Pennsylvania.