13-letter words containing s, a, l, e, r, o
- retranslation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- 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
- rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
- role reversal — Role reversal is a situation in which two people have chosen or been forced to exchange their duties and responsibilities, so that each is now doing what the other used to do.
- rollercoaster — a small gravity railroad, especially in an amusement park, having a train with open cars that moves along a high, sharply winding trestle built with steep inclines that produce sudden, speedy plunges for thrill-seeking passengers.
- roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
- russian olive — oleaster.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- 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.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- school leaver — School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- sclerocaulous — having a hard, dry stem
- scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- sealed orders — written instructions that are not to be read until a specified time
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- see you later — an expression of farewell
- 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-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
- self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
- 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.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- 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.
- sensorineural — related to or affecting a sensory nerve or a sensory mechanism together with its neural circuitry.