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.