13-letter words containing u, r, l, e
- silent butler — a small receptacle having a handle and a hinged lid, used for collecting the contents of ashtrays, crumbs from a dinner table, etc., for disposal.
- silver bullet — direct or immediate solution
- silver surfer — elderly internet user
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- silver-bullet — a quick solution to a difficult problem.
- single-figure — relating to numbers below ten
- single-suiter — one-suiter.
- slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
- sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- sound blaster — (hardware) The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
- southeasterly — coming from the south east
- 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 blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
- southwesterly — coming from the south west
- spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
- spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
- squanderingly — in a squandering manner
- square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
- squash ladder — a list showing the relative order of merit of a set of squash players determined by the winning player in each match taking the higher of the two players' positions
- squash player — a person who plays squash
- squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
- squirrel cage — a cage containing a cylindrical framework that is rotated by a squirrel or other small animal running inside of it.
- squirrel corn — an American plant, Dicentra canadensis, of the fumitory family, having yellow roots resembling kernels of corn, finely dissected leaves, and clusters of drooping, heart-shaped, cream-colored flowers.
- state funeral — a ceremonial funeral for a head of state, or other very important person
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
- stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- store rollout — Store rollout happens when a retailer expands, opening new outlets in a planned way.
- stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- structuralize — to form into or make part of a structure.
- structureless — without structure, organization, or arrangement; formless.
- subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
- sublime porte — official name of Porte.
- subliterature — writing below the standards of literature as an art form.