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

  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
  • silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
  • single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
  • single status — a national agreement that aims to avoid unfairness in pay and reward arrangements for employees and to ensure harmonisation of conditions in comparable posts
  • single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
  • single-suiter — one-suiter.
  • single-tongue — to play (any nonlegato passage) on a wind instrument by obstructing and uncovering the air passage through the lips with the tongue
  • single-valued — (of a function) having the property that each element in the domain has corresponding to it exactly one element in the range.
  • skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
  • skill-fulness — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
  • skull session — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • solidungulate — having a single, undivided hoof on each foot, as a horse.
  • soluble glass — sodium silicate.
  • solvent abuse — Solvent abuse is the dangerous practice of breathing in the gases from substances such as glue in order to feel as if you are drunk.
  • somniloquence — sleep-talking
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • sounding lead — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • sounding line — a line weighted with a lead or plummet (sounding lead) and bearing marks to show the length paid out, used for sounding, as at sea.
  • south shields — a seaport in Tyne and Wear, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tyne River.
  • southeasterly — coming from the south east
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
  • southwesterly — coming from the south west
  • space capsule — Aerospace. capsule (def 5).
  • space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
  • speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
  • spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
  • spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
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