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13-letter words containing r, u, s, o

  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
  • rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
  • red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
  • red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
  • redissolution — the act of redissolving
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • reinstitution — an organization, establishment, foundation, society, or the like, devoted to the promotion of a particular cause or program, especially one of a public, educational, or charitable character: This college is the best institution of its kind.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
  • repercussions — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • requisitioner — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
  • return stroke — the main discharge in a lightning stroke
  • reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
  • revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
  • rhizomorphous — rootlike in form.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
  • root pressure — osmotic pressure within the cells of a root system that causes sap to rise through a plant stem to the leaves.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rose-coloured — of the colour rose; rosy
  • rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
  • rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
  • rough as bags — uncouth
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • rouse oneself — to become active or energetic
  • rousseauistic — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
  • roxas y acuña — Manuel (maˈnwel). 1892–1948, Philippine statesman; first president of the Republic of the Philippines (1946–48)
  • roxburghshire — a historic county in SE Scotland.
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