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

  • expostulation — (countable) The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
  • expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • feloniousness — The quality of being felonious.
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
  • galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
  • gametothallus — a gamete-producing thallus.
  • garrulousness — Garrulity.
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • gesticulation — the act of gesticulating.
  • gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
  • girl's blouse — used to refer to a man who is not behaving in a very strong or masculine way
  • globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
  • glucochlorose — chloralose.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • glutinousness — The quality of being glutinous.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
  • halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
  • hallucinogens — Plural form of hallucinogen.
  • hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.
  • hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
  • heteroclitous — heteroclite
  • heterosexuals — Plural form of heterosexual.
  • heusler alloy — any of various alloys of manganese and other nonferromagnetic metals that exhibit ferromagnetism.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
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