13-letter words containing ru
- hermit thrush — a North American thrush, Hylocichla guttata, noted for its complex and appealing song.
- herpesviruses — Plural form of herpesvirus.
- highly strung — person: tense, sensitive
- hold a grudge — be resentful
- horror-struck — stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hypervirulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- ichthyosaurus — ichthyosaur.
- incongruences — not congruent.
- incongruently — not congruent.
- incongruities — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
- incongruously — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
- inconstruable — unable to be construed
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
- incorruptibly — In an incorruptible manner.
- incorruptness — The state of being incorrupt.
- india drugget — drugget (def 1).
- indian runner — one of a breed of domestic ducks.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inobtrusively — in an unobtrusive manner
- instructional — the act or practice of instructing or teaching; education.
- instructively — In an instructive manner.
- instrumentals — Plural form of instrumental.
- instrumenting — Present participle of instrument.
- interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
- interruptible — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interruptions — an act or instance of interrupting.
- intrusiveness — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- isostructural — (of two substances) having the same crystal structure but not necessarily a similar chemical composition.
- jebel ed druz — a mountainous region in S Syria: inhabited by Druses. About 2700 sq. mi. (6995 sq. km).
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- judges' rules — (in English law, formerly) a set of rules, not legally binding, governing the behaviour of police towards suspects, as in administering a caution to a person under arrest
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
- kettledrummer — a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
- kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
- lake-urumiyeh — Lake. Urmia, Lake.
- letter ruling — a written ruling sent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in response to a query concerning the application of the tax laws to a specific situation.
- light cruiser — a naval cruiser having 6-inch (15-cm) guns as its main armament.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- little russia — former name for the region consisting mainly of Ukraine but sometimes considered as including adjacent areas.
- logical truth — the property of being logically tautologous
- magnetic drum — a cylinder coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored.
- majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
- martinez ruiz — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), Azorín.
- mass spectrum — a spectrum of charged particles, arranged in order of mass or mass-to-charge ratios.
- megastructure — a very large, usually high-rise building or a complex of such buildings used for many purposes, as for apartments, offices, stores, theaters, and athletic facilities.
- miracle fruit — the berrylike fruit of either of two African shrubs, Synsepalum dulcificum or Thaumatococcus daniellii, that, when chewed, causes sour substances to taste sweet.