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13-letter words containing s, e, a, u

  • quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • quasi-retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quaternionist — a mathematician who works with quaternions
  • queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
  • queen's metal — any of several alloys containing antimony and tin and resembling britannia metal
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • questionaries — Plural form of questionary.
  • questionnaire — a list of questions, usually printed, submitted for replies that can be analyzed for usable information: a questionnaire used in market research.
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
  • quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
  • rabble-rouser — a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests; demagogue.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • 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.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • réaumur scale — René Antoine Ferchault de [ruh-ney ahn-twan fer-shoh duh] /rəˈneɪ ɑ̃ˈtwan fɛrˈʃoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • 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.
  • remeasurement — the process of measuring again
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • restauranteur — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
  • 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 crease — one of two lines marked at right-angles to each bowling crease, from inside which a bowler must deliver the ball
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • revascularize — to surgically improve the blood circulation of (an organ or area of the body).
  • revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
  • reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • river estuary — a river mouth
  • road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
  • 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.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • rousseauistic — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
  • rural science — the study and theory of agriculture, biology, ecology, and associated fields
  • rusine antler — an antler resembling that of the sambar.
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