13-letter words containing s, e, r, i, o, u
- triquetrously — from a triquetrous point of view
- tumorigenesis — the production or development of tumors.
- turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- unceremonious — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
- uncompromised — unable to function optimally, especially with regard to immune response, owing to underlying disease, harmful environmental exposure, or the side effects of a course of treatment.
- unconsidering — not reflective or thoughtful
- unconstrained — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
- unconstricted — to draw or press in; cause to contract or shrink; compress.
- uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
- und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
- undeleterious — injurious to health: deleterious gases.
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- undishonoured — not dishonoured; not disgraced or disrespected
- unforeskinned — circumcised
- unmeritorious — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unpersonified — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- unperspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- unpretentious — not pretentious; modest; without ostentatious display; plain: his unpretentious demeanor; an unpretentious summer resort.
- unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- unprovisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- unresponsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- unscholarlike — not befitting a scholar; ungentlemanly
- unseriousness — the state or quality of being unserious
- unsoldierlike — not befitting a soldier
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
- vivisectorium — the location where vivisection takes place
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- willow grouse — a N European grouse, Lagopus lagopus, with a reddish-brown plumage and white wings: now regarded as the same species as the red grouse (L. lagopus scoticus) of Britain
- without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
- your nineties — the ages between 90–99