13-letter words containing s, o, u, n, d, e
- 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.
- ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
- groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
- groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
- groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
- groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
- gynodioecious — having female flowers on one plant and hermaphrodite flowers on another plant of the same species.
- hazardousness — The condition of being hazardous.
- horned scully — a tapered block of concrete with projecting steel rails, placed under water to tear holes in the bottoms of boats.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- househusbands — Plural form of househusband.
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
- ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
- in due course — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- in the clouds — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- inbounds line — one of two broken lines, parallel to the sidelines and running the length of the field, to which the ball is brought when it goes beyond the sidelines.
- incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
- inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
- inquisitioned — Simple past tense and past participle of inquisition.
- insidiousness — intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
- insolubilized — Made insoluble.
- insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
- invidiousness — (rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- judiciousness — The state of being judicious.
- juglandaceous — belonging to the plant family Juglandaceae.
- kenwood house — a 17th-century mansion on Hampstead Heath in London: remodelled and decorated by Robert Adam: contains the Iveagh bequest, a noted art collection
- lodging house — a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.
- loose-tongued — unrestrained or irresponsible in speech; given to gossiping.
- ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- melodiousness — The property of being melodious.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- miscounselled — having bad or incorrect counselling
- misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- misunderstood — improperly understood or interpreted.
- modus tollens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and the negation of its consequent are given to be true, the negation of its antecedent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and this isn't Belgium so it's not Tuesday
- modus vivendi — manner of living; way of life; lifestyle.
- monosaturated — (organic chemistry, of a glyceride) Having one saturated fatty acid.
- mountainsides — Plural form of mountainside.
- murderousness — The state or condition of being murderous.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nitrous oxide — a colorless, sweet-smelling, sweet-tasting, nonflammable, slightly water-soluble gas, N 2 O, that sometimes produces a feeling of exhilaration when inhaled: used chiefly as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery, in the manufacture of chemicals, and as an aerosol.
- non-credulous — marked by or arising from credulity: a credulous rumor.