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

  • frelinghuysenFrederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
  • furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
  • geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
  • ground sluice — a trench, cut through a placer or through bedrock, through which a stream is diverted in order to dislodge and wash the gravel.
  • gubernatorial — of or relating to a state governor or the office of state governor.
  • guernsey lily — a bulbous plant, Nerine sarniensis, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of crimson flowers.
  • harlequin bug — a black stink bug, Murgantia histrionica, having red and yellow markings, that feeds on cabbages and other cruciferous plants.
  • harlequinades — Plural form of harlequinade.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • hilariousness — The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
  • hunter trials — a test for hunters held under the auspices of a hunt, in which the course is laid with obstacles to simulate actual hunting conditions.
  • hunter-killer — of or relating to a combined naval air and fleet force operating to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • hyaluronidase — Biochemistry. a mucolytic enzyme found in the testes, in snake venom, and in hemolytic streptococci and certain other bacteria, that decreases the viscosity of the intercellular matrix by breaking down hyaluronic acid.
  • hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
  • ill-nourished — underfed or inadequately fed
  • illuminometer — an instrument for measuring illumination.
  • importunately — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
  • inarticulated — Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
  • incongruently — not congruent.
  • inconquerable — That cannot be conquered; unconquerable.
  • inconstruable — unable to be construed
  • incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
  • incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • incredulously — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • incurableness — The state or condition of being incurable.
  • indolebutyric — as in indolebutyric acid, a synthetic plant growth regulator
  • industrialise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of industrialize.
  • industrialize — to introduce industry into (an area) on a large scale.
  • inequilateral — not equilateral; having unequal sides.
  • inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
  • inopportunely — In an inopportune manner.
  • instructively — In an instructive manner.
  • instrumentals — Plural form of instrumental.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • intercellular — situated between or among cells.
  • intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
  • intercultural — pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures: intercultural exchanges in music and art.
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