13-letter words containing s, e, r, u, l
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- by yourselves — if you are by yourselves, or all by yourselves, you are alone
- calcariferous — having a spur or spurs
- candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
- carnivalesque — characteristic of, suitable for, or like a carnival
- casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- cause celebre — A cause célèbre is an issue, person, or criminal trial that has attracted a lot of public attention and discussion.
- cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- celluliferous — making or consisting of small cells
- cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.
- centuries-old — hundreds of years old
- ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
- cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- charles louis — (Karl Ludwig Johann) 1771–1847, archduke of Austria.
- charnel house — A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- clair-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- clare-obscure — chiaroscuro.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
- clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
- coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
- cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
- colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
- coralligenous — producing coral
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.