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13-letter words containing u, n, r, e, i, d

  • 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
  • re-instructed — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • 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.
  • rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
  • red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • 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.
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
  • round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
  • round-tripper — a home run.
  • rubberbanding — (in online video games) the backward popping of characters in motion to their recently occupied spaces that results from high latency in the network connection.
  • rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
  • run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
  • running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
  • rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • sigmund freudAnna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
  • sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
  • superdominant — submediant.
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • superordinate — of higher degree in condition or rank.
  • teeing ground — tee2 (def 1a).
  • thunderstrike — Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
  • time-honoured — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
  • trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
  • trained nurse — graduate nurse.
  • trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
  • turbine blade — any of a number of bladelike vanes assembled around the periphery of a turbine rotor to guide the steam or gas flow
  • turn the tide — the periodic rise and fall of the waters of the ocean and its inlets, produced by the attraction of the moon and sun, and occurring about every 12 hours.
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
  • un-indentured — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
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