13-letter words containing s, u, r, l
- instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- instrumentals — Plural form of instrumental.
- insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
- insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
- interlocutors — a person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interosculant — Mutually touching or intersecting.
- interosculate — to interpenetrate; inosculate.
- interreligous — Between religions.
- interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
- intersexually — In an intersexual way.
- interstimulus — being, or relating to, the interval between the occurrence of two stimuli in a psychological experiment
- intracapsular — Within a capsule.
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- intravascular — within the blood vessels.
- intravenously — through or within a vein. Abbreviation: IV.
- irregularness — Quality of being irregular.
- irreligiously — In an irreligious fashion.
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- isochronously — In an isochronous manner.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- january sales — sales held after Christmas to encourage customers back to the shops
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- juan carlos i — King (Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor María de Borbón y Borbón) born 1938, Spanish monarch, born in Italy: king since 1975.
- judges' rules — (in English law, formerly) a set of rules, not legally binding, governing the behaviour of police towards suspects, as in administering a caution to a person under arrest
- julius caesar — Gaius Julius Caesar.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- junior school — a school for children aged seven to eleven, similar to a U.S. elementary school.
- jurisconsults — Plural form of jurisconsult.
- knuckleduster — A metal guard worn over the knuckles in fighting to increase the effect of blows.
- kuril islands — a chain of 56 volcanic islands off the NE coast of Asia, extending for 1200 km (750 miles) from the S tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to NE Hokkaido. Area: 14 990 sq km (6020 sq miles)
- laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- lake sturgeon — a sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers.
- lake superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lake-superior — Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- language arts — study of reading and writing
- laser surgery — the surgical use of lasers.
- lasik surgery — laser surgery to correct short sight
- least squares — a method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.
- lecherousness — The property of being lecherous.
- lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
- lecture notes — notes that are taken by someone attending a lecture
- leisureliness — The property of being leisurely.
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun