13-letter words containing s, e, r, i, c, u
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- holosericeous — covered with short, silky hairs.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
- incongruences — not congruent.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.
- incuriousness — The state of being incurious; indifference or apathy.
- indisturbance — Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
- insectivorous — adapted to feeding on insects.
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- insurrections — Plural form of insurrection.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
- ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
- julius caesar — Gaius Julius Caesar.
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
- justice court — an inferior tribunal, not of record, having limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, and presided over by a justice of the peace.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- manicure case — a case for holding small tools designed to care for the fingernails
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- mercurialness — Quality of being mercurial; mercuriality.
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- microbusiness — A business that operates on a very small scale.
- microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.