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

  • pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadrifarious — having four parts
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
  • quaking grass — any of several grasses of the genus Briza, having spikelets with slender, drooping stalks.
  • quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
  • quarter horse — one of a breed of strong horses developed in the U.S. for short-distance races, usually a quarter of a mile.
  • quarter-phase — differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
  • quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
  • quartermaster — Military. an officer charged with providing quarters, clothing, fuel, transportation, etc., for a body of troops.
  • quarterstaves — Plural form of quarterstaff.
  • quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
  • quasi-crystal — a group of atoms resembling a crystal but not having symmetrical plane faces
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • quasi-retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
  • quasimilitary — Having certain military aspects.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quaternionist — a mathematician who works with quaternions
  • queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • 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.
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • rabble-rouser — a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests; demagogue.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • ratushinskaya — Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • réaumur scale — René Antoine Ferchault de [ruh-ney ahn-twan fer-shoh duh] /rəˈneɪ ɑ̃ˈtwan fɛrˈʃoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • 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.
  • remeasurement — the process of measuring again
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • requiem shark — any of numerous, chiefly tropical sharks of the family Carcharhinidae, including the tiger shark and soupfin shark.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • restauranteur — the owner or manager of a restaurant.
  • 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.
  • return crease — one of two lines marked at right-angles to each bowling crease, from inside which a bowler must deliver the ball
  • return thanks — (of Christians) to say grace before a meal
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