13-letter words containing u, n, e, a, s, i
- barrier-nurse — to tend (infectious patients) in isolation, to prevent the spread of infection
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- bignoniaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Bignoniaceae, a chiefly tropical family of trees, shrubs, and lianas, including jacaranda, bignonia, and catalpa
- blanchisseuse — a washer-woman
- boardinghouse — a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
- boraginaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Boraginaceae, a family of temperate and tropical typically hairy-leaved flowering plants that includes forget-me-not, lungwort, borage, comfrey, and heliotrope
- brain surgeon — a surgeon who specializes in brain surgery
- brain surgery — operation on the brain
- brain truster — a member of a brain trust; an important but usually unofficial adviser.
- buccaneerings — the characteristic actions of a buccaneer
- bus mastering — bus master
- business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
- business case — a briefcase or attaché case.
- business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
- cabin cruiser — A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
- car insurance — financial protection against loss as a result of an automobile accident or theft
- carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
- carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- carillonneurs — Plural form of carillonneur.
- carnivalesque — characteristic of, suitable for, or like a carnival
- cassivelaunus — 1st century bc, British chieftain, king of the Catuvellauni tribe, who organized resistance to Caesar's invasion of Britain (54 bc)
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
- cavernicolous — inhabiting caves or cavelike places
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
- chaise longue — A chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length.
- chaise lounge — A chaise lounge is the same as a chaise longue.
- cinchonaceous — relating to cinchona
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
- clearinghouse — If an organization acts as a clearinghouse, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- consanguineal — having the same ancestry or descent; related by blood.
- consequential — Consequential means the same as consequent.
- consuetudinal — According to custom; customary; usual.