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13-letter words containing s, k, e, u

  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • return stroke — the main discharge in a lightning stroke
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
  • rock squirrel — a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
  • runner's knee — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • security risk — a person considered by authorities as likely to commit acts that might threaten the security of a country.
  • self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shoulder knot — a knot of ribbon or lace worn on the shoulder, as by men of fashion in the 17th and 18th centuries, by servants in livery, or by women or children.
  • skeletogenous — forming a skeleton, or parts of one
  • skill-fulness — having or exercising skill: a skillful juggler.
  • skull session — a meeting for the purpose of discussion, exchange of ideas, solving problems, etc.
  • skunk cabbage — a low, fetid, broad-leaved North American plant, Symplocarpus foetidus, of the arum family, having a brownish-purple and green mottled spathe surrounding a stout spadix, growing in moist ground.
  • sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
  • smoked rubber — a type of crude natural rubber in the form of brown sheets obtained by coagulating latex with an acid, rolling it into sheets, and drying over open wood fires. It is the main raw material for natural rubber products
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spotted skunk — either of two small, nocturnal skunks of the genus Spilogale, distinguished by a white forehead patch and a luxuriant coat of broken stripes and spots, including S. putorius of temperate North America and S. pygmaea of Mexico.
  • squash racket — a light long-handled racket used in the game of squash
  • squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
  • squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
  • steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • sucking louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • sunken garden — a formal garden set below the main level of the ground surrounding it.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • supermarketer — a person who owns or operates a supermarket.
  • surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
  • take measures — act, do sth practical
  • thick-skulled — stupid; dull.
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • thunderstroke — a stroke of lightning accompanied by thunder.
  • thunderstruck — overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
  • tinker's cuss — tinker's damn (def 1).
  • to keep house — If you keep house, you do the cleaning and cooking for your household, and do not go out to work.
  • truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
  • truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
  • tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
  • tubular skate — a type of ice skate consisting of a steel blade set into an aluminum tube and connected to the shoe by tubular supports, used for both hockey and racing skates.
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • undated stock — stock that has no definitive repayment commitment
  • understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
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