13-letter words containing r, o, u, t, s
- battlegrounds — Plural form of battleground.
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bibliolatrous — characterized by bibliolatry
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
- bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
- busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
- butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
- buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
- carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- chiaroscurist — A painter who uses light and shade rather than colour to create the illusion of volume.
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- co-authorship — the state a coauthor
- coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
- coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
- come a stumer — to crash financially
- come up short — disappoint
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- communicators — Plural form of communicator.
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
- congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
- conquistadors — Plural form of conquistador.