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13-letter words containing u, n, s, a, r

  • shulhan arukh — an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom compiled by the Talmudic scholar Joseph Caro (1488–1575), the original edition published in Vienna in 1565 emphasizing the practices of Sephardic Jews.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • siberian ruby — a red tourmaline used as a gem: not a true ruby.
  • singular noun — A singular noun is a noun such as 'standstill' or 'vicinity' that does not have a plural form and always has a determiner such as 'a' or 'the' in front of it.
  • sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
  • sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • 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.
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • sound library — a collection of sounds stored on file (for example on CDs, DVDs, or as digital audio files)
  • sound ranging — a method for determining the distance between a point and the position of a sound source by measuring the time lapse between the origin of the sound and its arrival at the point.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • south arabian — of or relating to the former South Arabia (now South Yemen) or its inhabitants
  • south-eastern — South-eastern means in or from the south-east of a region or country.
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • southern cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • southern toad — a common toad, Bufo terrestris, of the southeastern U.S., having prominent knoblike crests on its head.
  • sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • squanderingly — in a squandering manner
  • squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
  • square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • state funeral — a ceremonial funeral for a head of state, or other very important person
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
  • stirrup pants — close-fitting pants with a stirruplike strap, at the end of each leg, to be positioned under the arch of the foot
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • structuration — the act of giving structure to something
  • student grant — a grant of money awarded to somebody to fund their studying at a university or college
  • sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • sub-librarian — an assistant or junior librarian
  • subappearance — a slight appearance
  • subastringent — slightly astringent.
  • subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
  • subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
  • subgeneration — a generation within another generation
  • submarine pen — a bunker that prevents submarines from bombs
  • subordination — the act of placing in a lower rank or position: The refusal to allow women to be educated was part of society's subordination of women to men.
  • subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • subsaturation — the act or process of saturating.
  • subternatural — falling below what is accepted as natural; less than natural
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