13-letter words containing u, n, a, r, o
- puritan spoon — a silver spoon having an ovoid bowl and a straight, flat, completely plain stem.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- quarter point — the fourth part of the distance between any two adjacent points of the 32 marked on a compass, being 2° 48′ 45″.
- quarter pound — a unit of weight equal to a quarter of a pound or 4 ounces avoirdupois
- quarter round — a molding, as on an ovolo, whose section is a quarter circle.
- quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
- quaternionist — a mathematician who works with quaternions
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- questionaries — Plural form of questionary.
- questionnaire — a list of questions, usually printed, submitted for replies that can be analyzed for usable information: a questionnaire used in market research.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- random number — pseudorandom number
- random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
- rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
- ration coupon — a coupon that can be exchanged for a certain quantity of rationed goods
- rattle around — If you say that someone rattles around in a room or other space, you mean that the space is too large for them.
- re-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- recalculation — recount, act of computing again
- recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- 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.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- regurgitation — the act of regurgitating.
- reinoculation — a further inoculation of the same organism as the first inoculation
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- republication — publication anew.
- repunctuation — the act or process of punctuating differently or again
- restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
- 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.
- reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- reutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- ritualization — the act of ritualizing.
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.