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13-letter words containing s, u, l, e, i, m

  • 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.
  • revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
  • 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.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • selenium cell — a photovoltaic cell consisting of a thin strip of selenium placed between two metal electrodes.
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • self-luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
  • semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
  • semi-delirium — Pathology. a more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterized by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc.
  • semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
  • seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
  • semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
  • serial number — a number, usually one of a series, assigned for identification: the serial number of an automobile engine.
  • serum albumin — Biochemistry. the principal protein of blood plasma, important in osmotic regulation of the blood and transport of metabolites.
  • somniloquence — sleep-talking
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
  • sublime porte — official name of Porte.
  • submillimeter — less than a millimeter in size: a submillimeter wave.
  • submillimetre — a microscopic division of a millimetre
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
  • sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
  • sulfanilamide — a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • supermilitant — highly militant
  • supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • sutter's mill — the location in California, NE of Sacramento, near which gold was discovered in 1848, precipitating the gold rush of 1849.
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
  • tous-les-mois — a large-grained farinaceous food resembling arrowroot, obtained from a South American canna, Canna edulis, and used in baby food.
  • ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
  • ultra-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
  • umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
  • unamiableness — the state or quality of being unamiable or ill-tempered
  • unassimilable — capable of being assimilated.
  • unassimilated — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
  • unbeseemingly — in an unbeseeming or unbefitting manner
  • unembellished — to beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.
  • unicameralism — consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
  • unilateralism — the advocacy or pursuit of a unilateral policy, especially in disarmament.
  • unimpressible — not capable of being or willing to be impressed
  • unmetabolised — not metabolised
  • unministerial — not befitting a minister, esp relating to a head of a government department
  • unpermissible — that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
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