13-letter words containing our
- rumour-monger — If you call someone a rumour-monger, you disapprove of the fact that they spread rumours.
- scouring rush — any of certain horsetails, especially Equisetum hyemale, used for scouring and polishing.
- second-source — of or pertaining to a cooperative arrangement whereby the products, as electronic parts, of one company are also manufactured by another company
- self-coloured — of one color.
- semester hour — a unit of academic credit fulfilled by completing one hour of class instruction each week for one semester.
- service court — the part of the court into which a player must serve in various games, as tennis, badminton, handball, or squash.
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
- soupe du jour — the special, sometimes the only, soup served in a restaurant on any particular day
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- supreme court — the highest court of the U.S.
- surgery hours — the period of time each day when a doctor's surgery or office is open
- survey course — an introductory course of study that provides a general view of an academic subject.
- temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
- thirty-fourth — next after the thirty-third; being the ordinal number for 34.
- three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.
- time-honoured — revered or respected because of antiquity and long continuance: a time-honored custom.
- to hold court — If someone holds court in a place, they are surrounded by a lot of people who are paying them a lot of attention because they are interesting or famous.
- toilet humour — scatological or vulgar jokes
- tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
- tour en l'air — a turn executed in the air.
- tour operator — agent organizing package holidays
- tourist class — the least costly class of accommodations on regularly scheduled ships and airplanes. Compare third class (def 2).
- tourist court — motel.
- touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
- trade journal — periodical of a profession
- traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
- twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
- twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
- two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
- uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
- undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- undishonoured — not dishonoured; not disgraced or disrespected
- unencouraging — not encouraging; discouraging
- unneighboured — having no neighbour or neighbours
- unneighbourly — unfriendly and unhelpful
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
- well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
- what's yours? — what would you like to drink?
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
- your nineties — the ages between 90–99
- yourdon, inc. — (company) The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.