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13-letter words containing s, u, i, t, e, r

  • reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • reinstitution — an organization, establishment, foundation, society, or the like, devoted to the promotion of a particular cause or program, especially one of a public, educational, or charitable character: This college is the best institution of its kind.
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • requisitioner — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • restructuring — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • resuscitation — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
  • retributivism — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
  • retributivist — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
  • revolutionise — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
  • revolutionist — a person who advocates or takes part in a revolution.
  • righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
  • river estuary — a river mouth
  • rough justice — If you describe someone's treatment or punishment as rough justice, you mean that it is not given according to the law.
  • rousseauistic — the doctrines or principles of Jean Jacques Rousseau or his adherents.
  • rubbish chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which rubbish may be dropped for disposal
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • runjeet singh — Ranjit Singh.
  • rusine antler — an antler resembling that of the sambar.
  • saint laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
  • saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
  • saint-laurent — Louis Stephen [lwee ste-fen] /lwi stɛˈfɛn/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, prime minister of Canada 1948–57.
  • security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
  • 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.
  • security zone — an area controlled by security forces
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
  • semi-vitreous — partially vitreous.
  • semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
  • semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
  • sequestration — removal or separation; banishment or exile.
  • serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
  • sesquiterpene — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • shub-internet — /shuhb in't*r-net/ (MUD, from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity "Shub-Niggurath", the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting; the hideous multi-tendriled entity formed of all the manifold connections of the net. A sect of MUDders worships Shub-Internet, sacrificing objects and praying for good connections. To no avail - its purpose is malign and evil, and is the cause of all network slowdown. Often heard as in "Freela casts a tac nuke at Shub-Internet for slowing her down." (A forged response often follows along the lines of: "Shub-Internet gulps down the tac nuke and burps happily.") Also cursed by users of FTP and telnet when the system slows down. The dread name of Shub-Internet is seldom spoken aloud, as it is said that repeating it three times will cause the being to wake, deep within its lair beneath the Pentagon.
  • silent butler — a small receptacle having a handle and a hinged lid, used for collecting the contents of ashtrays, crumbs from a dinner table, etc., for disposal.
  • silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
  • silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
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