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13-letter words containing s, u, n

  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • querulousness — The quality of being querulous.
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • question time — a time set aside in a session during which members of a parliament may question a minister or ministers regarding state affairs.
  • questionaries — Plural form of questionary.
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • questionnaire — a list of questions, usually printed, submitted for replies that can be analyzed for usable information: a questionnaire used in market research.
  • quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
  • quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
  • quinquenniums — Plural form of quinquennium.
  • quintessences — Plural form of quintessence.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • re-instructed — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
  • reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
  • recrudescence — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
  • rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
  • recursiveness — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
  • redissolution — the act of redissolving
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • 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.
  • rejuvenescent — becoming young again.
  • religiousness — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
  • remeasurement — the process of measuring again
  • rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
  • repercussions — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • requisitioner — the act of requiring or demanding.
  • restauranteur — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
  • 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.
  • return crease — one of two lines marked at right-angles to each bowling crease, from inside which a bowler must deliver the ball
  • return stroke — the main discharge in a lightning stroke
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
  • revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
  • 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
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