13-letter words containing s, e, l, u
- ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
- eucharistical — Alternative form of eucharistic.
- eugeosyncline — a geosyncline characterized by lithology typical of deep ocean environments
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- european sole — Solea solea, a tongue-shaped flatfish of the family Soleidae, also known as Dover sole or common sole: prefers shallow waters and is highly valued as a food fish
- eventualities — Plural form of eventuality.
- excess supply — a situation in which the market supply of a commodity is greater than the market demand for it, thus causing its market price to fall
- exclusionists — Plural form of exclusionist.
- exclusiveness — The state of being exclusive; exclusivity.
- excusableness — The quality of being excusable.
- exhaust valve — An exhaust valve is a valve that releases burned gases from a cylinder.
- exhaustlessly — in an exhaustless manner
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
- expostulation — (countable) The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
- expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
- extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
- extravascular — Situated or happening outside of the blood vessels or lymph vessels.
- facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- feloniousness — The quality of being felonious.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
- feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
- film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
- food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- fossiliferous — bearing or containing fossils, as rocks or strata.